- Also known as:
- Unknown
- Year:
- 2012
- Predominant Genre:
- War
- Best Performances:
- Plot:
- Black pilots save White airmen from White culture’s moral turpitude.
- Themes:
- Patriotism | Personal change | Self-expression | Compassion | White supremacy
- Similar To (in Plot, Theme & Style):
- Review Format:
- DVD
Excellent adventure movie about the White fear of Black people; presented with a simple, life-affirming dignity.
Whites wanted to win the Second World War without help from those they considered inferior. That would be tantamount to admitting that Whites needed such help and were, thus, not as superior as they claim. (This is why White history books almost always imply that Whites won World War 2.) Yet every able-bodied man was needed to win the war, so Whites had to swallow their so-called race-pride and accept help from wherever they could get it.
The characterization is well-handled as each pilot is clearly distinct from his mate; making the unity of the squadron seem all the more remarkable - even though White supremacy makes such unity inevitable, since there was a war being fought on two fronts here - against White anti-Semites and White negrophobes.
The only real problem with this movie is that it tries to pack in too much political detail concerning its theme of White insecurities. This makes the rich source material better fodder for a tv series - where all the various issues can be more fully developed and explored. Yet, this movie still manages such a fine balance between combat and dialogue scenes that this does not matter too much in an otherwise first-rate entertainment.
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