A Soldier's Story (1984)

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A Soldier's Story is a 1984 American drama film directed by Norman Jewinson, adapted by Charles Fuller from his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1981 Off Broadway production A Soldier's Play. It won the New York Drama Critics Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Theater Club Award, and three Village Voice Obie Awards. It won the Golden Prize at the 14th Moscow International Film Festival. It was also nominated for three Academy Awards: for Best Picture, Supporting Actor (Adolph Caesar), and Screenplay Adaptation (Fuller).[1]

Synopsis

A dark military official who is an attorney is sent to research the homicide of a black sergeant in Louisiana by the end of the World War II. The movie tells a story about bigotry in an isolated regiment of the U.S Army directed by white officials and preparing in the Jim Crow South, in a period and spot where a dark official is remarkable and harshly disliked by almost everybody.[2]

Controversy

Most of the plot rotates around the personality of the dead man, Sergeant Waters (Adolph Caesar), who is a rough veteran of World War I, and thinks that black people ought to consistently act to well present whites and reflect credit for their race. He is loaded up with self-loathing, and takes it out on the individuals of color under him who are not acting the manner in which he figures they ought to by killing him. Appearing how much hate on individuals of color could develop around then of history.[3]

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