What Happen To Miss Simone: Movie Analysis

The film" What happen to Miss Simone" talk about the story Simone's lonely childhood where she spent almost of her time to classical piano career to her final years as a performer. She starts playing piano at four, and she performs in church at revivals. One day, she wants to become the first black classical pianist to play professional, but music school wouldn't take her because of the color of her skin. After that, she decides to play jazz in clubs. In there, she met her husband Andrew Stroud and from there her life fills with violent. Furthermore, Simone's diary talks about the spousal abuse, how she suffered from manic depression. She says she was being "worked like a dog " by her husband. Thing changes in 1963, she starts to write the

song to express her feeling about the discrimination between black and white people.
I learn that she wants to become an advocate of radical political by the civil rights and black movement of the 1960s. She performs many songs such as " Mississippi Goddamn" about the bombing of Mississippi church that killed four little black children. She sings this song because she sees the black people have been being killed without telling any reasons, but it just because of the color of their skin. She wants black people has equality same as white people. It relates to class discussion that Simone thinks black people still a human and they also have their feelings. For this reason, she wants everybody to treat black people fairly without any violence that she witnessed her whole life, as well as her passion for change. This film serves as educate and inspire us to work more to justice for black people.