This film could NEVER be made in 2016

There is an saying that a conservative is just a liberal delayed by 20 years. And this film proves it. There are various elements of the film that contradict the political messages that we are supposed to accept today.

1) The 2 rapists that attacked and almost murdered the little girl were portrayed as hateable characters to their core. No normal person, not even a white conservative, could have any sympathy for those two. Considering that what they did counted as pedophilia and attempted murder, the death penalty is certainly a reasonable option. Also, they were portrayed as the low-rent, drug-using, violent felon element of society, that no middle-class church-going respetable Bible Belter wants to be associated with.

The film showed the vast majority of the whites in the town as level-headed and hating the two men, but only being concerned about using "law and order" against black vigilante justice. And obviously that prosecutor was clearly selfishly grandstanding to advance his political career. A 2016 film would portray all the whites as a soulless mob of cruelty. There'd be no sympathetic Southern white characters like Chris Cooper or the "Mickey Mouse" character in a 2016 film.

2) The film shows Matt McConnahey as a liberal who engages in "punching to his left" in his interaction with Sandra Bullock. He says, "I am a liberal, but not a card-carrying ACLU radical", and also "spare me your Northern, self-righteous, we are the only enlightened ones, bull". With the SJWs of today, moderate liberals are trampled over to to appease the far radical left. It's my way or the high-way with 2016 SJWs, and McConnaheys character would be shown in 2016 as a weak moderate that didn't do enough to help the Left.

3) The film dared to call out shady practices by the NAACP. The black pastor raised collections of 1000s of dollars, and instead of using them to buy rent and groceries for Carl Lee's family, the money was going to the NAACP lawyers, lead by a New Yorker coincidentally named Norman Reinfeld (subtle anti-Semitism). Carl Lee calls them on their shadiness, claims they want to make him a martyr, and is luckily able to put the money to good use, to pay McConnahey and get his family's bills paid. In 2016, no criticism of an organization like NAACP would be allowed.

The film was also fair enough to show that even the KKK did their stupid march causing civil disturbances outside of the courtroom, the NAACP had protestors brought in from the outside, showed to be almost as violent as the KKK. They even show black protestor throw a moletov cocktail at the Grand Wizard and kill him.

4) Finally, Carl Lee tells McConnahey why he picked him. Carl Lee didn't want an obvious outsider to represent him, such as a Jewish lawyer from New York, or a grandstanding black preacher-type lawyer, or a big organization like the NAACP. He wanted a local man with a Southern accent. "You are them". McConnahey got Carl Lee free by thinking like a Southern conservative, not a Northern liberal. In 2016, no Southern conservative would be portrayed as a hero, only a villain, and only the black characters and some liberal whites from the North would be the heroes.

So basically, in the past 20 years, filmmaking covering these issues has gotten alot more one-sided, politically radicalized, promotes cartoonish villains, and goes straight at serving the left-wing agenda. This film does not engage in such tactics. It uses conservative and liberal viewpoints to deliver its message.