For anyone planning to see this movie, thinking that you will be seeing high drama and/or great dialogue, please be warned: This is not the movie for you. Richard and Mildred Loving were simple working-class people. They didn't seek attention or fame. They just loved each other and had a "pigmentation problem."
The dialogue is sparse; the law enforcement officers in Virginia are not that mean towards the Lovings; and the Loving couple only show their loving through their constant love for each other and their family over all the years that it took this case to finally reach it to the US Supreme Court. The court decision was monumental for thousands of interracial couples in the US (mainly in the Southern states). However, the emotion will not be seen on the screen.
The Lovings could have attended the Supreme Court Hearings, but Richard Loving (Joel Edgerton) declined the invitation to attend them, and therefore, his wife, Mildred (Ruth Negga) chose not to attend them either. When Mildred received the news of the Court's decision, she was mild in her joy but appreciative to the ACLU for taking on the case and seeing it through.
This was a landmark case in the US Supreme Court, but don't expect it to yield a landmark movie in terms of on-screen drama. It doesn't. It is more about a long and abiding love between a man and his wife as well as love for their children (not to be considered bastards by the state of Virginia).
The dialogue is sparse; the law enforcement officers in Virginia are not that mean towards the Lovings; and the Loving couple only show their loving through their constant love for each other and their family over all the years that it took this case to finally reach it to the US Supreme Court. The court decision was monumental for thousands of interracial couples in the US (mainly in the Southern states). However, the emotion will not be seen on the screen.
The Lovings could have attended the Supreme Court Hearings, but Richard Loving (Joel Edgerton) declined the invitation to attend them, and therefore, his wife, Mildred (Ruth Negga) chose not to attend them either. When Mildred received the news of the Court's decision, she was mild in her joy but appreciative to the ACLU for taking on the case and seeing it through.
This was a landmark case in the US Supreme Court, but don't expect it to yield a landmark movie in terms of on-screen drama. It doesn't. It is more about a long and abiding love between a man and his wife as well as love for their children (not to be considered bastards by the state of Virginia).