| RATING: | 80% |
| FORMAT: | Cinema |
Well-acted, edited & directed story of a woman's search for selfhood despite the limitations of her culture and education.
The emotionally crippled Black males here reveal the Feminist nature of the source novel's enterprise, as well as the negative affects of White supremacism. This bigotry is brilliantly encapsulated in one female character's craven dependence on allegedly helping so-called coloreds (& her fear of sexually predatory Black males!) leading to her inevitable anger when Blacks are not grateful enough for her condescension.
However, elliptical storytelling hampers character empathy; suggesting this would have been better as a longer tv mini series. Nevertheless, director Steven Spielberg - a Jew – understands the concept of a cultural diaspora that is at the movie's core better than most Whites and that the prisons many of the characters inhabit are both literal as well as metaphorical.
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