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Today is one of those rare occasions when I feel it would help to reprise a previous commentary in its entirety. It’s short. I will append an update below. So, first, here is “Viola Regrets Portrayal of Black Women in The Help” from September 17, 2018. ********* The Help was a box-office hit. It also… Read more.
The Help was a box-office hit. It also won critical acclaim. This included Octavia Spencer winning an Academy Award (an Oscar) for Best Supporting Actress and the film winning a slew of other Academy Award nominations, namely Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress for Jessica Chastain, and Best Actress for Viola Davis (evidently everybody upstaged the… Read more.
Am I the only one who finds it discouraging that the most celebrated relationships between black and white women in film are those which feature the former working as a domestic servant for the latter? Here we are, 72 years since Gone with the Wind first celebrated this hardly “ennobling” relationship; yet people (mostly misguided,… Read more.
