Inside Jokes, racial matters and hallowed ground.
I came a across a gem created for the Metro-Golwyn-Meyer. It features Robert Duvall and James Earl Jones (A family thing) and deals with the broad theme of Racial Relations between African Americans and Caucasians. The two protagonists are driven into a historical but inward journey of self-discovery in which they are forced to confront their definitions of family and identity. If there is any message for me in this particular work is that there are some issues in American Culture that are too sensitive to expose and that must be kept in the closest of sacred memories in which only The eyes of former masters and slaves can behold. The danger in our current age and in the American Experience is that unclean shoes have been allowed to tread on the sacred ground of American History. The result of this has been the disruption of Black-white relations and the interruption of decades of progress and reconciliation. It's like a two man dance that has been ruined by a third overly ...