This film is almost like a documentary in its clearcut realism all the way, starting off at once by presenting the incident of a child accidentally falling down into a bottomless pot hole. Rumour gets around that a white man had been seen talking with her, and around the fact that the man was white and the girl coloured in a small town of 50/50 of each, a universal lynching mentality is building up, everyone wanting to beat up and destroy everyone of the other party, marvellously visualized on screen. It's worth watching the film again just to study all those faces.
At the same time this should be a wonderful treat for engineers, as there is no small enterprise required to deal with the ultimate situation. At the same time the film is a glorious triumph proving that nothing is impossible, and that mere good will can overcome everything.
Most wonderful is the way the situation turns from one extreme to the opposite. First everyone wants to kill each other in a universal mass hysteria of anger and hatred, and when the truth finally is discovered they all join in and want to help each other in rescuing the small 5-year old girl. It's a wonderful panorama of human nature, revealing both its worst and its best sides, while at the same time it is revealed how little is required to both turn ordinary perople into a mass destructive mob and to convert them all into angels just by destiny striking at the core of human nature, all rendered totally convincing in as near to documentary realism as you can get.
At the same time this should be a wonderful treat for engineers, as there is no small enterprise required to deal with the ultimate situation. At the same time the film is a glorious triumph proving that nothing is impossible, and that mere good will can overcome everything.
Most wonderful is the way the situation turns from one extreme to the opposite. First everyone wants to kill each other in a universal mass hysteria of anger and hatred, and when the truth finally is discovered they all join in and want to help each other in rescuing the small 5-year old girl. It's a wonderful panorama of human nature, revealing both its worst and its best sides, while at the same time it is revealed how little is required to both turn ordinary perople into a mass destructive mob and to convert them all into angels just by destiny striking at the core of human nature, all rendered totally convincing in as near to documentary realism as you can get.