MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell delivers the Last Word with a lesson about how and why filmmakers dramatize real life events.
“Movies are movies. History books are history books. Movies are works of art — some great art, some good art, some terrible art. Selma, to me is great art… We want to have that experience we can only have in a dark theater, locked in the grip of a movie. I had that watching Selma — which ended with the biggest and longest standing ovation I have ever experienced in a theater.”