5. Even if it did not open in the midst of a season of racial inflammation, “Selma,” Ava DuVernay’s meticulous reconstruction of a crucial chapter of the civil rights movement, would arrive bearing the burdens of history. It’s not often — it’s pretty much never — that a major studio allows a black woman to direct an expensive, prestige-laden historical drama. But the stiff, bland, self-congratulatory pageantry that so often weighs down such projects is entirely missing here. There is instead a palpable sense of political urgency as a vivid assortment of characters (importantly but not exclusively David Oyelowo’s the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) quarrel over strategy, tactics and the moral future of America.

5.艾娃·德约列(Ava DuVernay)的《塞尔玛》(Selma)是对民权运动中关键一幕的细致重现，即便它不是在种族冲突如火如荼之际上映，也必将满载历史的负担。大制片公司让一个黑人女导演来执导一部花费高昂而充满名人的历史剧是很少见的——根本就是前所未有的。但是这部影片里完全没有类似题材中常见的那些拘谨、平庸、自我赞美的盛大场面，而是各种形象鲜明的人物对战略、策略与美国的道德前景展开辩论，令人清晰地体会到政治上的紧迫感，大卫·奥伊罗[David Oyelowo]饰演的小马丁·路德·金博士[Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.]是片中的重要人物，但不是唯一重要的人物。