Vernon Dahmer

There's plenty of Klansmen that all want to kill Lindley play want to kill Wayne Strider just for the color of his skin just for the idea that there's a Fed that is not just a a mouthpiece for the federal government, but also a black man.

But the thing is, they're down there in order to investigate the killing of Vernon Dahmer, a Mississippi man who was taking steps to encourage the voting of black people back in the 60s, and he was killed in a fire by the Ku Klux Klan.

Now they've sent Gregory, the FBI has sent Gregory Scarpa down to Mississippi once more in order to try to find the information since locals are so scared of the Ku Klux Klan that they are not talking to the feds.

They're not talking to anybody because they know what will be in for anybody who has loose lips.

Yeah, this is a movie that the fact that it was only 90 minutes long or thereabouts, it kind of straight away told me, yeah, this movie isn't really going to delve too deeply into its kind of mild, gritty subject matter.

The fact that this is, in a way, it's kind of about two separate investigations that Scarper is supposedly responsible for.

One, yeah, the Mississippi burning murders in 1964, but then also the NAACP member Vernon Dahmer was killed in 1966.

But the movie really picks up after the Mississippi burning murders have already been solved.

The story takes place in Mississippi in 1966 when racial violence and intimidation were deeply embedded in the political and law enforcement systems.

Where an African-American FBI agent, Wade Strider, arrives expecting to investigate a serious crime, the murder of Vernon Dahmer played again with a grape.

performance by gencarlo esposito who offers to pay the voter fee that's in place for african americans to vote but strider quickly realizes that the local authorities aren't exactly eager to cooperate when the investigation hits a wall the fbi turns towards an extremely unconventional solution the fbi partners with the mob to off the books help with getting answers Now, this is where the movie starts to get interesting.

Scarpa is willing to do things the FBI can't officially do.

It's interesting.

interesting moral contradiction.

Can someone who is fundamentally immoral become useful when pointed at people who are even worse? While I can respect the story being told, and the murder of Vernon Dahmer is a genuinely disturbing chapter of American history, and the film deserves credit for bringing attention to a story that isn't nearly as familiar to mainstream audiences as other events from the civil rights era, Giancarlo Esposito, who again plays Dahmer and his mere presence gives the movie an important emotional connection to the community that is being terrorized by any means has a lot that it does right performances check pacing check messaging sometimes but again there is something when a movie can bring an important part of history to light and make the audience cheer for racists getting the shit kicked out of them so for that I'm giving by any means a slight recommendation at three stars And that's a cut on this week's edition of the Movie Wire.

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One factual thing

that got right was, is that Vernon Dahmer... was murdered by the KKK.

And George, uh, Scarpa, Scorpa was a mafia hit man, uh, and an FBI informant.

Otherwise we basically just have an action revenge thriller.

Yes, I can forget that none of this actually happened.

and just watch it for a black Elliot Ness type story that never existed.

The murder itself of Vernon Dahmer, doesn't he doesn't even really get killed in this directly in this story it appears and i'm not sure if this is accurate because i don't know how he was killed um because basically in the movie he kills himself they they throw molotov cocktails at his house that gets on fire and then they start shooting and he gets his whole family out and could have left with them.

But instead, he goes back inside to shoot at the wall and supposedly hit the truck outside, I guess.

Reverend.

Vernon Dahmer, which is, of course, a totally real scenario that went down.

He was a real civil rights leader who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1966.

And the plot of this movie is about how to get down into the nitty gritty, Jack.

There you

go.

In January 66, he allegedly helped the FBI a second time in Mississippi on the murder case of Vernon Dahmer, who had been killed in a fire.

After his second trip, they had a sharp disagreement about his reward for these services.

And Danielle mentioned this is a historical crime thriller.

It's about a young black FBI agent who teams up with this notorious mafia hitman in 1966 Mississippi to investigate the racist murder of civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer Sr., So we have this FBI agent, Wayne Strider, and he is working in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

He's recently moved from Chicago.

And he's placed with another Black FBI agent in a file room.

And he becomes an FBI informant.

He's helped the FBI in Mississippi on a previous case.

And so they've called him in to work with Agent Strider in solving the case of the murder of Vernon Dahmer Sr., So, you know, you've kind of got this really crazy, odd couple working together.

And Greg Scarpa, I mean, he is full-on mafia hitman, you know, Tony Soprano type, you know,