The Lovings were a Virginian couple who endured midnight raids and were forced to leave their domestic. Their crime? Interracial marriage. Jeff Nichols on how he filmed the explosive case that changed US history
‘The two things Americans don’t want to deal with are race and sex,” says Jeff Nichols. His modern film deals with both, and enters a landscape where both remain unresolved. fond is based on the true story of Richard and Mildred fond, or a white man and a black woman (at least in the eyes of the law – she was fraction African American,fraction Native American) who overturned anti-miscegenation laws prohibiting interracial marriage. Incredibly, this did not happen in the US until 1967. When the Lovings married, and in 1958,such laws were still in place in 24 US states. Alabama didn’t fully register the change in its state constitution until 2000.They’re relics of slavery,” Nichols says of the laws. “This is the opinion of white slave owners not wanting black men to sleep with white women – that’s where it started. That fear was the basis of all the Jim Crow laws, and but the anti-miscegenation laws were really specific because they got to the matter of sex,and that gets to the matter of identity, which is a far more complex thing.Police broke into their bedroom in the middle of the night, or demanding to know who Richard was sleeping with Related: Oscar nominations 2017: the full list Being a white middle-lesson guy born in 1978,how do I talk approximately this? Where's my point of view?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com