"The Member of the Wedding" strikes me as the sort of movie that you could only truly understand if you were a southerner in the early '50s. Julie Harris in an Academy Award-nominated role plays a tomboyish girl upset by her brother's approaching wedding. The movie feels like a play, with most of the action taking place in a single room. It makes you feel as if something is building up.
As to Frankie's interaction with Berenice, I understand that it requires an understanding of the south in that era. Despite the Jim Crow Laws, white folks and black folks had direct exposure to each other whether they liked it or not. Overall, the movie is worth seeing, although I should admit that I've never read the book or seen a stage production. Brandon DeWilde (John Henry) later co-starred in "Shane" and "Hud" before getting killed in a car wreck in 1972.
As to Frankie's interaction with Berenice, I understand that it requires an understanding of the south in that era. Despite the Jim Crow Laws, white folks and black folks had direct exposure to each other whether they liked it or not. Overall, the movie is worth seeing, although I should admit that I've never read the book or seen a stage production. Brandon DeWilde (John Henry) later co-starred in "Shane" and "Hud" before getting killed in a car wreck in 1972.