Manderlay... a real look at race in America?

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Won't see it until this weekend but having loved Dogville I have high hopes.
A snippet from a review...
"As the wise old house slave Wilhelm (Danny Glover) says to Grace, â€œAmerica was not ready to welcome us Negroes as equals 70 years ago and it still ainâ€™t, and the way things are goinâ€™, it wonâ€™t be in a hundred yearsâ€ â€” tough words that will do little to curb the accusations of anti-Americanism and moral superiority routinely hurled at Trier. But at a moment when the L.A. riots are barely a decade behind us, Bill Cosby gets raked over the coals for daring to suggest that his fellow African-Americans should lift themselves out of the ghetto, and the canâ€™t-we-all-get-along platitudes of Crash pass as a canny pulse-taking of race in America, pardon me if Iâ€™m exhilarated by the boldness with which Trier hauls the musty skeletons out of our sociopolitical closet."
"Where are we going? And what am I doing in this hand basket?"

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Topic - Manderlay... a real look at race in America? - sjb 23:33:45 02/08/06 (2)

I don't understand the critical mindset that feels misleading and insulting - tinear 19:34:09 02/09/06 (0)

"...the canâ€™t-we-all-get-along platitudes of Crash." Aww.... nt - clarkjohnsen 09:27:09 02/09/06 (0)

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