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I think this was a very successful portrayal of the views and behavior of people in the 1950s, not only toward race but also toward gender roles, family relationships and social responsibility. The narrator is a white woman (the grownup Mary Catherine), and it would be easy to dismiss the whole movie as just one more white filter on US history. But John Cork, the screenwriter, didn't allow that to happen. Neither white nor black are romanticized or demonized. --- Debbi S. | I think this was a very successful portrayal of the views and behavior of people in the 1950s, not only toward race but also toward gender roles, family relationships and social responsibility. The narrator is a white woman (the grownup Mary Catherine), and it would be easy to dismiss the whole movie as just one more white filter on US history. But John Cork, the screenwriter, didn't allow that to happen. Neither white nor black are romanticized or demonized. --- Debbi S. | ||
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| + | When the young white kids came on the bus and were harassing Odessa's daughter would a white bus driver stop the bus and kick the white's off? -afrisk | ||
