Loving (2016)  Starring: Joel Edgerton, Ruth Negga, Terri Abney, Michael Shannon. Loving is a biographical romantic drama film based on the lives of Richard Loving and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple who faced litigation for being wedded. The Racial Integrity Act in Virginia prohibited interracial marriages and is considered illegal. Richard and Mildred are madly in love with each other and get married in Washington D.C. in 1958. However, upon returning to Virginia, the local Sheriff arrests them as the marriage laws are invalid in Virginia despite having a marriage license.  Though the couple built a family in Washington staying in one of their friend's houses, Mildred desperately wanted to return to Virginia and watch her kids grow up in the country. Hence they plan to appeal to the Federal Supreme Court and successfully get a favourable verdict. This movie wonderfully captures how love transcends race. The moment when Richard says, "Tell the judge I love my wife"...

"To Have and Have Not" tells the story of Harry Morgan, a struggling owner who goes to great lengths to make ends meet and to feed his family.The Depression has pushed Harry to get involved in precarious crimes like shipping contraband and in human trafficking. Though Harry tries to ethical and accommodating to a certain extent, his observations about the Haves and the Have-nots camp has had created a durable bitterness about this difference in society. Ernest Hemingway has also adeptly shown narratives from various characters in the story and gives insight into the corrupt lives of the well-to-do folks. The setting of the story also illustrates communist infiltration into the United States of America (Florida) from Cuba and the prevalence of extreme racism in the Southern states. This is a sad tale. that is written using various literary devices to sensitise the struggles of Rednecks. It's an ingenious crime novel that captures the historic and cultural changes that took...