History Film / Till

* TheFifties: Where the tragic story takes place.

* WhereDaWhiteWomanAt: A tragically '''dark''' example. Emmett whistles at and flirts with Carolyn in a grocery store, not knowing that as a black boy in the Jim Crow-dominated South that you are ''not'' supposed to do. This leads to his lynching at the hands of a lynch mob led by her husband.

* EvilIsPetty: Emmett tries to ask to at least put his shoes on when he is forcefully dragged out, but Roy tells him that he won't need them, wanting to deny him being treated like a human being in his last moments.

* ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife: Carolyn Bryant, is a downplayed example. She appears none too bright and passive but she overreacts to Emmett's compliments about her looking like a movie star, culminating in frantically shouting for nearby white men to get him as she chases him out the store, before getting husband and his friends to kill the teenage Emmett, outright lying in court that he molested her.

* ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife: Carolyn Bryant, is a downplayed example. She appears none too bright and passive but she overreacts to Emmett's compliments about her looking like a movie star, culminating in angrily shouting for nearby white men to get him as she chases him out the store, before getting husband and his friends to kill the teenage Emmett, outright lying in court that he molested her.

* Emmett's family helplessly watch as their cousin/nephew is abducted from the house, since they would most likely be killed if they try to intervene, only reduced to pleading to spare him to no avail.

* CategoryTraitor: As seen when the lynch mob kidnaps Emmett, there are black men who are amongst them and took part in his brutal murder. It is even clarified during the trial.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Though much of it isn't shown onscreen, Emmett's lynching consists of him being violently beaten until he is unrecognizable, having his facial features forcefully removed, tied and dragged by car, shot, and drowned in the river by a racist lynch mob. The sadistic brutality of his death left his body horrifically disfigured, prompting Mamie to have his casket open so the whole world can see the body.

* KangarooCourt: The court holds the murder trial in clear favor of the defendants, and it is sealed for the jurors to allow Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam to walk free when Carolyn is allowed to get on the stand so she can slander Emmett.

** Carolyn Bryant is never charged for her role in the murder despite siccing her husband and his friend onto Emmett, identifying him to them directly, and perjuring herself to slander Emmett during the murder trial.

* MononymousBiopicTitle: "Till", the surname of Emmett and Mamie. The film is a biopic about the murder of Emmett and the pursuit of justice by Mamie.
* ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife: Carolyn Bryant, is a downplayed example. She appears none too bright and passive but she overreacts to Emmett's compliments about her looking like a movie star and gets her husband and his friends to kill the teenage Emmett, outright lying in court that Emmett molested her.

** In an effort to avoid "trauma porn," Emmett's lynching is never shown; we see what happens immediately before, and there's a landscape shot with his gut-wrenching screams in the distance, but not the lynching itself.

* TheSavageSouth: Emmett is said to not understand "how different things are" in Mississippi compared to his native Chicago. While he is down there, he gets accused of flirting with a white woman and is viciously lynched.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Though it isn't shown onscreen, Emmett's lynching consists of him being violently beaten until he is unrecognizable as a human being, having his facial features forcefully removed, dragged by car, shot, and drowned in the river by a racist lynch mob. The sadistic nature of his death, of course left his body horrifically disfigured.

** Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam are both acquitted of the murder. Despite confessing to it in an interview a year later, they do not face retaliation for the brutal murder of Emmett and live the rest of their lives as free men and.

* PapaWolf: Emmett's uncle, like his aunt, tried to plead with the lynch mob to spare his nephew since he is just a child and doesn't know any better of how seriously bad the racism is in Mississippi, only to be quickly overwhelmed and helplessly watch his nephew be violently abducted.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Though it isn't shown onscreen, Emmett's lynching consists of him being violently beaten until he is unrecognizable as a human being, having his eye, teeth, and tongue removed, shot, and drowned in the river by a racist lynch mob. The sadistic nature of his death, of course left his body horrifically disfigured.

* CruelAndUnsualDeath: Though it isn't shown onscreen, Emmett's lynching consists of him being violently beaten until he is unrecognizable as a human being, having his eye, teeth, and tongue removed, shot, and drowned in the river by a racist lynch mob. The sadistic nature of his death, of course left his body horrifically disfigured.

The film tells the real-life story of Mamie Till-Mobley (Deadwyler), an American educator and activist from Chicago, Illinois, who pursued justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till (Hall), who in 1955, was viciously lynched in Drew, Mississippi, while he was on vacation visiting his cousins after being accused of flirting with a white woman at a local grocery store, with his brutal murder becoming one of the catalysts of the UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement.

** Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam are both acquitted of the murder. Despite confessing to it in an interview a year later, they do not face retaliation for the brutal murder and live the rest of their lives as free men and.

The film tells the real-life story of Mamie Till-Mobley (Deadwyler), an American educator and activist from Chicago, Illinois, who pursued justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till (Hall), who in 1955, was viciously lynched in Drew, Mississippi by two white supremacists, while he was on vacation visiting his cousins after being accused of flirting with a white woman at a local grocery store, with his brutal murder becoming one of the catalysts of the UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement.

* DisproportionateRetribution: For commenting that Carolyn looks like a movie star and wolf-whistling at her, Emmett is violently abducted by Carolyn's husband Roy Bryant and his friend J.W. Milam, who proceeds to brutally torture him to death.

** Roy and J.W. are both acquitted of the murder. Despite confessing to it in an interview a year later, they do not face retaliation for the brutal murder and live the rest of their lives as free men and.

** Emmett's aunt, to no avail, begs Roy and J.W. to spare Emmett, pleading that she will punish her nephew severely for whatever he is being accused of.

* ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife: Carolyn Bryant, is a downplayed example. She appears none too bright and passive but she overreacts to Emmett's compliments about her looking like a movie star and gets her husband and his friend to kill the teenage Emmett, outright lying in court that Emmett molested her.

* WouldHurtAChild: This film is about one of the most egregious, heinous murders of a child ever committed. The vehemently racist Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam absolutely have no qualms in violently abducting Emmett from his aunt's home in the middle of the night and brutally torturing and killing him in a barn shack before dumping his body in a nearby river, the lynching of which left his body horrifically mutilated and completely unrecognizable.