"In the Heat of the Night" Reflection 

In one of our class times, our teacher let us watch a movie by the name of "In the Heat of the Night". While I am not normally a fan of older movies, I thoroughly enjoyed this one. If you like a good murder mystery, or even just a mystery, then you will enjoy this movie. It also has a good actor from another movie we watched, his name is Sidney Poitier. He was also in the movie "Band of Angels" that we watched a few weeks ago which I also enjoyed a lot. 

In this movie one officer found a dead man on the road. A little while later he found Virgil, a black police officer who was sitting on a bench waiting for his train to arrive. The officer blamed Virgil for the murder of this man he had found, not knowing the Virgil himself was a respected police officer from up North. The officer ended up bringing Virgil to the police station as a suspect, where he was met by the harsh chief of police. 

At the police station, Virgil was thoroughly investigated by the racist chief, and he quickly realized he was talking to a fellow officer, one who specialized in murder investigations. The chief ended up letting him go. If it wasn't for the wife of the murder victim, Virgil would've been on his way back up North and would've never seen them again, but she stepped in and convinced them that they needed his help because he was a specialist. He ended up helping them all the way through the investigation.

One of the reasons I really like this movie is because you can clearly see how America has changed through the years with racism. Nowadays a black officer is a very normal thing and no one would think twice about it, but back then it was very different. African Americans were free, but there were still a plethora of racists people in America, especially in the South.