The simple folks, being fooled in every way by the evil system that they have not yet had the strength to get rid off, will still feel shame for their stupidity when faced with the divinely good.
What is revealed to us later in that magic last scene is not revealed to them and we experience it with them and see in the black old man our true Jesus.
Now, somebody who has been hounded all his life, will maybe not be strong enough to write such a will but the beauty of the film is that the black man has always been portrayed in the film with utmost dignity, so we are fooled just as everybody else.
First, I thought it was a letdown that uncle Famous did, in fact, not write that will but later I realized that it would have been too saintly bordering to unrealistic to have him write it. However, had he been less oppressed he might very well have written it and later on in history a black man did indeed write many extraordinary things - Martin Luther King.
This film has the same impact against racism as The Bicycle Thief has against market economy, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has against psychiatry and society, The Elephant Man has against levity and Great Expectations has against fixed ideas and illusions.
A film to be proud of having seen, if such a thing is possible.
What is revealed to us later in that magic last scene is not revealed to them and we experience it with them and see in the black old man our true Jesus.
Now, somebody who has been hounded all his life, will maybe not be strong enough to write such a will but the beauty of the film is that the black man has always been portrayed in the film with utmost dignity, so we are fooled just as everybody else.
First, I thought it was a letdown that uncle Famous did, in fact, not write that will but later I realized that it would have been too saintly bordering to unrealistic to have him write it. However, had he been less oppressed he might very well have written it and later on in history a black man did indeed write many extraordinary things - Martin Luther King.
This film has the same impact against racism as The Bicycle Thief has against market economy, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has against psychiatry and society, The Elephant Man has against levity and Great Expectations has against fixed ideas and illusions.
A film to be proud of having seen, if such a thing is possible.