I found that the movie 'To Kill a Mockingbird' was good, even though we haven't quite finished it in class yet. My favorite scene in the whole movie so far has been the trial scene, in which Tom Robinson was charged with the rape of Mayella Ewell, and Atticus was defending Tom, who was a black man.
You could tell, in that scene, how Maycomb County (the setting of the movie) felt about the black population and their place in the world. Basically, most of Maycomb is racist.
My class did notice while watching the movie how the plot mainly focused around Atticus, even though the narrator was still Scout. It is a good angle for the movie, since Atticus is such an intriguing and well-written character and the actor was so skilled at being Atticus. But if I had a choice I would have focused more on Scout. Scout is also such an interesting character; she seems too intelligent for her years reading-and-writing wise, but she still manages to be child-like. But the credit for the character, of course, goes to the author of the book and the writer of the script for the movie.
In the segment of the movie that my class and I viewed today, Jem didn't seem to be as prominent. The scene we saw today was completely focused on Atticus and the trial. I believe that that was the right choice to make. Jem is an interesting character, but doesn't have a huge role in the movie.
To a more serious note in the movie, I found the death of Tom disappointing. The writer of the script got the death of Tom Robinson all wrong. In the book, Tom had died trying to escape from the prison by climbing over the fence, and had been shot seventeen times by the guards. In the movie, however, he had been shot once and killed instantly trying to escape the car on the way to the prison.
The movie has its ups and downs, and I'm excited to see where the movie turns next.
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