It's a very interesting story. I liked so much the character of the black husband who made it to the top of society in the late 1970s, however hates watching "Roots" or even the idea of making it as a TV series. He tasted the bitter taste of racism himself, but he wants to wind up this page forever. And when he hates his neighbor as she, from his viewpoint, offends the image that he strived to find for the black people, plus how she didn't fatigue herself making the money she got; winning it in a lottery--he'll go and burn her house. The man turned into a racist himself, yet out of fear. The fear that his "class" might be harmed because of riffraff such as this vulgar neighbor; dealing with her the same way that any fanatic racist would have dealt with him years ago. The sad thing is that this very interesting story was made so uninterestingly!
The script was clumsy. I didn't feel the subject well. What's the main theme? is a question that will hunt you all the time, specifically with the idea of the "good fences" that this family was sunken in, and with having only one event that I can remember (burning the house). To tell you the truth, I felt that the movie itself doesn't know what to say, or how to say it, for most of the time. The directing was so heavy-handed. The pace is nearly dead. Some shots were really not necessary; I mean seeing the vicissitude, the days and the nights around the villa was so provocative with empty repetition as well!
The movie seemed eventually like a TV movie that was crushed by the worst new wave cinema. In another word; pointless, pedant and too dull to stand. So with the presence of cinematic stars such as (Danny Glover) and (Whoopi Goldberg), it'd be more depressing. And I knew lately that this was promoted as a comic movie, with a catchline that says: "The Laughs Don't Stop in This Hilarious Comedy"??? So with that, it'd be surely more and more depressing! But for me, the most depressing thing was the meaning of this story which lost itself through long, very long, 119 minutes!
I hated that Variety described the movie as "a stupefyingly clumsy mix of cartoonish comedy, simplistic satire and borderline hysterical melodrama". Because you can say all of that in fewer words: This is a bad movie!
The script was clumsy. I didn't feel the subject well. What's the main theme? is a question that will hunt you all the time, specifically with the idea of the "good fences" that this family was sunken in, and with having only one event that I can remember (burning the house). To tell you the truth, I felt that the movie itself doesn't know what to say, or how to say it, for most of the time. The directing was so heavy-handed. The pace is nearly dead. Some shots were really not necessary; I mean seeing the vicissitude, the days and the nights around the villa was so provocative with empty repetition as well!
The movie seemed eventually like a TV movie that was crushed by the worst new wave cinema. In another word; pointless, pedant and too dull to stand. So with the presence of cinematic stars such as (Danny Glover) and (Whoopi Goldberg), it'd be more depressing. And I knew lately that this was promoted as a comic movie, with a catchline that says: "The Laughs Don't Stop in This Hilarious Comedy"??? So with that, it'd be surely more and more depressing! But for me, the most depressing thing was the meaning of this story which lost itself through long, very long, 119 minutes!
I hated that Variety described the movie as "a stupefyingly clumsy mix of cartoonish comedy, simplistic satire and borderline hysterical melodrama". Because you can say all of that in fewer words: This is a bad movie!