In The Heat Of The Night Film Analysis

The movie I was assigned was, In the Heat of the Night starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger. This film took place during the late 1960’s in Mississippi, where Virgil Tibbs, a black Philadelphia homicide detective, is traveling. Upon his travel, he unintentionally gets involved in a murder investigation of a business man. He was first accused of committing this murder when a police officer became suspicious of him. After they determined his innocence’s, he was then asked to help solve the case because of his vast knowledge and experience dealing with homicide crimes. He eventually agreed to help because he knew it was the right thing to do. The process for finding the killer was determined to be difficult, but even more so when Tibbs’s efforts

The second amendment, unlike the fourth, is used correctly within the movie since guns are being used and people have the right to own them. Throughout the movie not only did the policemen have and use guns, but people in the town possessed guns as well. One scene in particular, that showed the community purchased their own guns, was towards the end of the movie when many people had followed Tibbs during the night. They all pulled up in their cars to where he had gone, ready to beat him and kill him if it went that far. Many people in that large group were carrying guns, and were upholding their second amendment to bear arms. Now in this instance the group of men hadn’t been harmed, threatened, or hurt by Tibbs, meaning their purpose of guns was unreasonable. There was no reason towards threatening to shoot Tibbs, other than the color of his skin and they did not like the fact that he was helping the police with the murder case. Once this scene was played out, there were shots fired, but not directed towards Tibbs. The men realized that he wasn’t the dangerous person in this situation, and was only there to aid in the investigation which will result with benefits in their

Not everything followed what was constructed in our Amendments, since there was a search and seizure without a reasonable probable cause problem in the movie. The movie, In the Heat of the Night, did well at displaying the types of circumstances black people would run into during the times of the sixties. There were multiple scenes where Tibbs was cornered with his life and was about to get attacked, but there would be someone who would stand up for him and protect him not affected with his race. When there were people sticking up for black people, that brought about a feel good sense to the movie, along some hope. This hope came because the viewers knew not everyone was out to get black people, but instead wanted them to be treated equal. The movie was a favorable and interesting movie; there was a mystery behind it and that helped add to the suspense of the movie, but also point out the problems with African Americans during these