Mary Sanchez: ‘Till’ exudes maternal love and the on-going grief for a murdered child
The Twitter trolls went about their work early, as they tend to do. They struck before gathering pertinent information and were assuming and self-congratulatory. Many commented before the mid-October limited release of “Till,” the latest cinematic treatment of the nation’s most infamous lynching involving the 1955 death of 14-year-old Emmett Till. Keith Beauchamp, a co-writer on the film’s ...
The Twitter trolls went about their work early, as they tend to do.
They struck before gathering pertinent information and were assuming and self-congratulatory. Many commented before the mid-October limited release of “Till,” the latest cinematic treatment of the nation’s most infamous lynching involving the 1955 death of 14-year-old Emmett Till.
Keith Beauchamp, a co-writer on the film’s script, winced.
He’s a New York-based documentarian, a personal friend and advocate of Emmett’s deceased mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.
But he collected himself before investing too much emotion responding to the uninformed takes of relatively few people.
Beauchamp has lived
