Posted on 03/09/2017 10:48:20 AM PST by Morgana
Such a genius. I bought front-row tickets to see him years ago. He had just undergone the death of a friend, and when he started to sing, "I think it's going to rain today," he got to this part:
Lonely, lonely...and became overwhelmed, filled up with tears, got off the piano bench and left the stage, all of which was so painfully apparent to the first few rows. He soon came back and carried on. As a not half bad church singer, I have often regretted not just standing up and starting the audience singing the chorus to him en masse --
Tin can at my feet
Think I'll kick it down the street
That's the way to treat a friend
Bright before me the signs implore me
To help the needy and show them the way
Human kindness is overflowing
And I think it's going to rain today
That is very interesting. I grew up in Alabama, but my entire extended family is from the north (Minnesota)...and I currently live in the Midwest.
Its always been hard for me to accurately describe race relations between the north and the south, but that saying by Angelou just about nails it.
Specifically, I live in Topeka, Kansas - and people here will proudly tell you it is the home of the Brown vs Board desegregation case. The people here are 100% in favor of desegregation...except anyone who can moves out of the ‘bad’ school district, and the Topeka area has the most segregated schools that I’ve ever seen in my life.
But...the locals still look down their noses at me, because I grew up in the racist south.
Texas AAU track team my grandson is on is all Black except for him. His relay team members refer to themselves as the Three Bo’s and a Peep. Never have to introduce myself as they all assume I am the white kid’s granny. Most of the other parents say hello but not much conversation beyond that.
The movie addresses racism and stereotypes from both sides. It seems fairly apolitical. But the commentary is an interesting take.
Race is obviously a big theme for the film, but it is not exclusively about race. Race is more of a backdrop. Betrayal, trust, hypnotism, and intrigue are all part of the story.
There’s even a bit of comedy. Not enough to call this a horror-comedy as some have. But some of the exaggerated stereotypes are funny.
The timing and pacing of the thrills and chills are right on the mark.
Certainly not a film told from a Christian worldview. The societal acceptance of interracial dating is addressed. Premarital sex is treated as normative (much as our culture does). According to the review at Plugged in Online the film has...
“More than 50 f-words and about 45 s-words. We also hear ‘a—,’ ‘b—ch,’ ‘d—n,’ ‘h-—’ and ‘n-—er.’ God’s name is misused about a dozen times, twice with the word ‘d—n’.”
This is the directorial debut of comedienne and actor, Jordan Peele.
Which would probably be no different if they were all white.............
He’s a Lefty to be sure. But he sometimes he’s not afraid to criticize them as well. The whole point of “Rednecks” was that the sanctimonious Northerners weren’t any better at how they treated blacks than the Southerners.
I saw this movie, as a horror-drama-comedy, not for political purposes.
And while i found it refreshing that the villains were not trump supporters or “conservative christians”, I would not say it was a political movie.
The people were ‘liberal’ in one sense, but that comes across as more of a cover than a real viewpoint. They were more of a moral-less rich privileged class of people deciding they are worth more than everybody else because they have the power.
There was a “view” of blacks projected by the antagonists of the movie, but it was presented as a “fad”, and the suggestion was that whites had been similarly treated (although probably due to some shortcuts in story-telling, that idea that blacks became the “in” thing falls apart when you sit at the end and look back at the movie.
I do highly recommend this movie. The acting is good, there are no messages that will make your blood boil, the conclusion is not immediately obvious, and I fell in love with the TSA agent.
A lot of the black ghetto stereotype is southern redneck transported to an urban environment where it utterly fails due to loss of the fathers in the family.
Then liberal whites on the west coast and north fail to see the similarity in dialect and many behaviors, while denigrating whites with those attitudes and demanding all blacks abide by that stereotype.
I’ve called it a horror-drama-comedy, in part for the specific comedy bits in it, and in part because of the “comedic” violence, meaning over-the-top in a way that tends to lessen the tension, where other horror types will use the violence to heighten the tensions.
Also, there’s a comedic streak in the musical score, especially the exaggerated “volume cues” that are used in a lot of horror movies to subliminally get the audience ready for “something bad to happen”. IN this movie, the loud sounds happen kind of right AFTER the actual scares that would normally have been predicted by the sounds. (My favorite being at one point early on, the servant woman walks through the background. You clearly see her, because she is specially lit to stand out. And just as you are thinking “I saw her, that’s creepy” the music does a huge crescendo, like “hey something is about to happen” but it already happened.
(BTW, in this sense, there were parts of cabin in the woods that became comedic, like the utter over-the-top aspect of the killing fields at the end of the movie. And of course the merman and the killer unicorn.
You’re right. There is a lot of over-the-top and tongue-in-cheek humor going on.
Which would probably be no different if they were all white.............”
I’ve had kids and grandkids in sports for the last 45 years. Until this year with the one grandson in AAU track the team members were generally Caucasian with a few Blacks. Always had lots and lots of interchanges and gatherings between parents and grandparents of team members, including picnics, parties, fundraisers, etc. Maybe because of the part of the country we live in.
Texans are gregarious..................mostly..............
Texans are gregarious..................mostly..............”
You are mostly right, particularly once you get out of the major cities. Grandson also played on the JV football this year. First game most of the other women came up and introduced themselves. We were also given an information packet about the Booster Club. Went to three family gatherings which were close - lots of fun and met many more new people.
Country folk are always more friendly and outgoing than city folk.
It’s a self defense mechanism on the part of city folk..............
I totally got that.
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