Nit picks (but I liked the film)

I think this was a good film, a great story, and I learned a lot. The civil rights movements are getting old enough that a lot of us don't remember these kinds of internal details. I'm 60yo and mostly I just remember the news stories (marches, riots, and of course the historical and symbolic items such as Rosa Parks and the lunch counter incidents). So good on them for making a decent film about important events.

THAT SAID, there were a lot of lazy points. By lazy, I mean it would have been easy for the screenwriter to find more plausible story points:

Eye roll #1, right off the bat: If your car has a bad starter, it doesn't start. Once it has started, the car will NOT break down on the way to work because you have "a bad starter", since the car is already running. If the starter went bad on the way to work, they wouldn't have figured it out until they needed to start it again.

To unlazy the writing here, all they would have had to do is consult any decent auto mechanic for a reasonable car-breakdown scenario. But at the very least, to stay with the bad starter story, they could have given them a reason to pull over and turn the car off (like someone had to go to the bathroom).

#2: Then, the "bypass the starter" fix. I literally laughed out loud. There are no electrical contacts under the hood that you can short with a screwdriver that will start the engine without a starter. Nothing. I don't care how many films you've seen where people that know how to jack cars by working around the ignition system and safeties (wires under the dash or in the engine compartment), because those people shorted wires together to start the engine that STILL REQUIRED a working starter.

Unlazy: this is an easy one: make the car a standard transmission that could be started with a jump start (two girls and the cop push the car and the driver pops the clutch when it's going fast enough).

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