The film, appropriately titled, recounts the experiences of Richard (Joel Edgerton) and Mildred (Ruth Negga) as they confront racial prejudice in Virginia during the late 1960s. This married couple, expecting a baby, find themselves arrested for violating the state’s stringent laws against interracial marriage. Following a short period behind bars, he is released, then she too is freed with a suspended sentence requiring them to leave the county and never return. They comply initially, awaiting their child's birth, but an opportune intervention from their attorney Beazley (Bill Camp) prevents disaster before Bernie Cohen (Nick Kroll), another lawyer, proposes a plan to have them rearrested so he can appeal the initial ruling to the nation’s highest court. This was a gamble. Only a fraction of cases—one in four hundred—are accepted by the US Supreme Court, and tensions are high in a state where white supremacist views were openly promoted, with many people believing that different races should remain separate according to what they considered divine instruction. The film plainly demonstrates how the “land of the free” was far from it. Tolerance overshadowed individual liberty, marriage, and even simple association. Legally valid marriages performed elsewhere are disregarded here, and this couple must have genuinely felt a great deal of anxiety as they forged their own path. It does lack some background information, and the characters’ situation is presented without exploring how they met or fell in love. While that doesn't diminish the film's point, it would have provided a stronger foundation for understanding why they were willing to fight so hard. I found it watchable and engaging enough, but at times it felt slow-paced, and although their troubles are truly frightening, I didn’t quite connect with the actors.

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