Mississippi Damned Movie Analysis
Mississippi Damned was written and directed by Tina Mabry and is based on her struggles growing up in Tupelo, Mississippi. Mabry has a history of pouring her life into her work. After receiving her masters of Fine Arts in Cinema and Television from the University of Southern California, she went on to create two emotion filled short films, Brooklyn’s Bridge to Jordan (2005) and Itty Bitty Titty Committee (2007), before debuting her first feature masterpiece. Before premiering on Showtime in 2011, Mississippi Damned dominated the film festival circuit winning top prizes at the Chicago International Film Festival, Outfest, American Black Film Festival, and Urbanworld Film Festival. It now streams worldwide on Netflix and still produces numbers.
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All three children have gone through so much, but Kari is the only one who keeps her eyes on the number one goal in her life, making it out of Tupelo, Mississippi. The older women are the glue in the world of Mississippi Damned. The mothers, aunts, and grandmothers have gone through exactly what Kari, Sam, and Leigh are going through, if not worse, want nothing more than to see all three of them make it out and achieve nothing but success in their lives. Although the women share some blame, the fathers and uncles seem to be the source of the poverty, gambling, addiction, and abuse, physical and …show more content…
Everyone in the world can testify to their trials and tribulations but they are exactly what morphs and shapes us into who we are. The weak succumb to the poison and destroy themselves, but the strong understand eventually that where you come from and what you have been through does not define you. It is an individual choice you make to lay down and die or stand up and make something of yourself. Kari Patterson understood that. Since she was a little girl, she represented hope for a better tomorrow. Continuous negative events in her life was like putting black food coloring in hydrogen peroxide. Tina Mabry’s one solid message to the world is, “there are always options when you think there are
All three children have gone through so much, but Kari is the only one who keeps her eyes on the number one goal in her life, making it out of Tupelo, Mississippi. The older women are the glue in the world of Mississippi Damned. The mothers, aunts, and grandmothers have gone through exactly what Kari, Sam, and Leigh are going through, if not worse, want nothing more than to see all three of them make it out and achieve nothing but success in their lives. Although the women share some blame, the fathers and uncles seem to be the source of the poverty, gambling, addiction, and abuse, physical and …show more content…
Everyone in the world can testify to their trials and tribulations but they are exactly what morphs and shapes us into who we are. The weak succumb to the poison and destroy themselves, but the strong understand eventually that where you come from and what you have been through does not define you. It is an individual choice you make to lay down and die or stand up and make something of yourself. Kari Patterson understood that. Since she was a little girl, she represented hope for a better tomorrow. Continuous negative events in her life was like putting black food coloring in hydrogen peroxide. Tina Mabry’s one solid message to the world is, “there are always options when you think there are