4 Little Girls

Spike Lee’s heartbreaking documentary on the bombing murders of the four black teenagers, in the basement of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, by sub-human white bombers who didn’t have to face justice for many, many years, until the South had changed enough that a prosecutor thought he had a chance to convict the piece of garbage named Robert “Dynamite Bob” Chambliss. And he did, many years too late, but at least the scum spent his last eight years behind bars. One other man was convicted even later.

The one thing I didn’t like too much was Spike’s using extreme close-ups almost exclusively when interviewing the surviving parents and siblings of the girls. Sorry, man, that’s just too damn close. But I will admit to feeling tears forming several times as these people spoke about their loss, as painful now as if it had all happened yesterday.