Till (2022) review

Fourteen-year-old "Bobo" Till (Jalyn Hall) takes a train from his native Chicago to Mississippi to spend his "vacation" with relatives, but makes the fatal mistake of telling Caucasian shopkeeper Carolyn Bryant (Haley Bennett) she looks like a starlet (and then blows a kiss at her) which gets him lynched - once his mother Mamie (Danielle Deadwyler) recovers his corpse, she demands he have an open casket funeral to force people to see what they did to him.  The actual story - which was an important part of the Civil Rights Movement - is unbelievably sad and tragic (the individuals who murdered Emmitt never served a day in prison), but this is yet another Liberal Guilt movie: one in which the supposedly "empathetic" viewer congratulates him or herself for having a conscience and realizing the injustice of the situation.  Deadwyler's performance is fine but showy - at first she (rightfully) expresses concerns over her son's safety, then after he's gone she becomes (justifiably) hysterical.  In case anyone was under the impression that this kind of evil isn't still prevalent, two days before I watched this the 45th President of the United States had dinner with a white nationalist at his Führerbunker in Florida.