Eyes on The Prize Elliot Davis

The biggest element in the movie in Eyes on The Prize that moved me the most were the scenes showing Emmet Till. This impacted me a lot because it amazed me how two men could so viciously attack a young boy and feel no remorse. The pictures of Emmet Till's body just amplify the horrors of what was done to him, as his face isn't even recognizable. It only takes a shot in the head to kill someone, yet their method of killing him shows that they wanted him to suffer much more than just that swift death; they wanted to torture him. Furthermore, after this happened, a jury containing all white men declared the two defendants not guilty. This might have even struck me more than previously because it is bewildering how a court, no matter their race or other classification, couldn't even find enough humanity to punish somebody who killed and tortured a young boy. The American legal system was so flawed and skewed towards whiteness that this court couldn't bring themselves to condemn two white men for a crime against a black man.