This is a pretty good film technically,...but boy is the film likely to cause extremely high blood pressure or even heart attacks in modern audiences!!! And I DON'T recommend that the average person watch this, as the film is so racially offensive. In the 1940s, drawing characters of giant-lipped Black characters who spoke in Jive must have seemed very funny, but today it will most likely make many recoil in horror! However, I do recommend you see this film if you are interested in history or the progress we've made in race relations. As a history teacher, I see this as a wonderful film just as a teaching tool--to show us how far we've come. Plus, being a strong, strong advocate of free speech, I am loathe to encourage ANY film to be banned outright.
The film is on at least a superficial level, a pretty funny and interesting piece--particularly the wonderful ending. Just be forewarned--it is an awful aspect of race relations that some want to forget ever existed. Of course, if you ignore or forget your past, you are opening up the possibility you won't learn from our mistakes.
The film is on at least a superficial level, a pretty funny and interesting piece--particularly the wonderful ending. Just be forewarned--it is an awful aspect of race relations that some want to forget ever existed. Of course, if you ignore or forget your past, you are opening up the possibility you won't learn from our mistakes.