HE SAID....
By Gerald Wright
'...In this film there are limited glimpses of black and white scenes of sadism in the shameful chapter in America's history. I wondered if the film's purpose was to sanitize this and use off-beat humor to make it bearable? When you have KKK members arguing about the correct head of their hoods, it doesn't make bigotry hilarious...'
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Gerald Wright
National Association of Black Journalists
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SHE SAID....
'...DiCaprio's cartoonish plantation potentate villain aside - this is an idyllic South including stylishly attired compliant, when not outright conspiratorial with the Massa slaves happily prancing about the grounds, and women among them eagerly serving as seductive bordello babes on the premises. All possibly revealing a lot less about Old Dixie, than the sugar coated present, where popular culture is layered over with cruelty and violence for laughs, and whatever sells...'
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Prairie Miller
Newsblaze Newswire
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