Just a postscript to the above, I’ve been thinking about it all week. I correspond with a white American writer considered a foremost authority on the slave trade, so thought he’d be a good person from whom to get an opinion. He wrote back
“Five of us who went to see it together had an e-mail chain about it for days! I think Boots is just jealous because Spike's movie also turns on a black guy sounding white on the phone.”.
Whatever your takeaway, it’s certainly got us all talking.
Just a postscript to the above, I’ve been thinking about it all week. I correspond with a white American writer considered a foremost authority on the slave trade, so thought he’d be a good person from whom to get an opinion. He wrote back
“Five of us who went to see it together had an e-mail chain about it for days! I think Boots is just jealous because Spike's movie also turns on a black guy sounding white on the phone.”.
Whatever your takeaway, it’s certainly got us all talking.