| RATING: | 80% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
An unusually honest look at the subtleties of institutional racism (ie, low racism in high places) and the warrior scholars Blacks need to become to make the best of Themselves. Ruben Carter realises he must ensure he needs nothing from Whites if he is to escape their endemic racism: He can, therefore, expect nothing positive from them and so will never be disappointed.
Whites are shown as well-meaning fools who remain the problem and not the solution; hiding behind racist bromides such as: Not all White People are racist!
By his example, Carter encourages a young man to excel despite his weak parenting.
A rarely-explored aspect of racism is its existence to benefit racist professionals – a legal community benefiting from keeping a man in prison for 22 years – that perpetuates its racism in order to keep it from being exposed to the light; while pretending to be against it. This makes a change from the usual Hollywoodized nonsense that only lower-class people can be racist and that a higher education is the cure. This, however, implies something the film shies away from: That racists cannot be successful without racism; hence, its popularity among them as a solace for lack of actual ability.
As usual, Denzel WASHINGTON is excellent.
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