Director Chinonye Chukwu sees her film as about politics even though it focuses first on humanity and feeling.
In her youth, filmmaker Chinonye Chukwu learned the story of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Chicago boy who in 1955 was kidnapped and brutally murdered during a trip to Mississippi. But it took her longer to learn about Mamie Till-Mobley, Till’s mother, whose push to publish the photo of her son’s mutilated body in Jet magazine galvanized the public.
“I see this story as the journey of a woman who develops an activist consciousness, somebody who’s content in her own bubble and then her bubble bursts. I wanted to do a character study, so that’s how I initially approached it. Once you really communicate the humanity of a character, then you can really pull the audience into feeling and experiencing the politics.”Danielle Deadwyler’s performance as Mamie Till-Mobley, mother of Emmett Till, is already attracting Oscar buzz.
“Long takes shouldn’t be done just because they’re cinematically fun or interesting,” she says. “Every time I discuss shots with my cinematographer, it’s always from a place of ‘What’s going on in the story?’ So, we wanted to show Mamie navigating the emotional complexity and tension of the different gazes in the courtroom. I wanted to capture that and not break away from it.
Chukwu and her lead actress did their research to understand Mamie’s struggle to maintain composure as a grieving mother on the public stage. Although “Till” does not visually depict Emmett’s lynching, Chukwu finds a way of showing Emmett’s body that strikes a balance between the tender and the unflinching. When the scene begins, Mamie is standing alongside her husband and the coroner, and Emmett’s body is obscured by a table. Once the two men leave, and Mamie is alone with her son, the camera reveals the full picture.
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