Heat of the night

Heat of the night is a movie that shows us a story about Vergil Tibbs in the South during the 1950s. The story itself is not real but it shows all of the true elements of the time period. He is there visiting his family or more pacifically his mother. 

But as he is about to head back home to Philly at the train station he is then dragged into a murder case. At first the police think he is the killer because of him being at the wrong place at the wrong time and because of racist stereotypes. But luckily after some time and the local police seeing that he is a cop they drop the charges.

For a little background knowledge, this movie takes place somewhere between the late 1950s and 60s I believe, because it did not give a date in the story. But even though it was the mid 1900s the Jim Crow laws still had a very strong effect on the South, despite their being new laws in the world.

 In the movie we can see that, segregation, racism, add stereotypes about people were sadly still floating around in the South, in other words even though the world had changed the South didn't change. Which given the South's history of slavery that kind of makes sense. 

This movie really opened my eyes to how wide spread racism was in the South. I though it would be a shadow of itself but no it was still around in the movie sadly.  

Even though the story is not real I personally think that the movie really does a good job at capturing the realism of how things were. And not just the racism but the main differences between the South and the North.

For instance the South has a lot of country land and is very spread out, but the North like Philly and New York are the opposite. Since things are a lot closer things are more crazy than the south. Look at it this way Vergil has lots of experience with murders but the local police have none. 

That's why Vergil is so smart in the movie, it's like someone from the A team talking to someone from the C or D team. Although its not really talked about in the movie we can see just how jealous the chief of police is of Vergil. 

Here in his town he's the top dog then here comes along someone he's never seen or talked to before that's so much smarter, richer and better then him, at doing police work. When it came to seeing how the victim died Vergil knew exactly what to do, but the chief of police had no idea where to even start. 

What I'm trying to say is that, when people talk about cops everyone always respects them and I do too of course, but this movie shows that their are levels to this crazy job. It shows us the the main difference between a big city cop and a small town cop. Most of all it shows the skill and experience differences between the two of them. 

My final thoughts about this movie or mostly positive to say the least. I feel like this movie was very good for its time. The mystery behind the whole movie was quite engaging and had an interesting vibe to it; not to mention the levels of foreshadowing that went into the story. The actors did a great job in the movie especially since this is during the early period of Hollywood.

No AI of any kind was used in making this.