I saw it. It was just plain, a good movie. The race issues were actually more contributory elements to the general plot. Like Joseph Conrad's "The Nigger of the Narcissus" (please don't flame me, that is in fact the title of the book, written in the 19th century), race issues were present but the plot itself and what it had to teach about human nature transcends the racial friction issues. A similar movie, in which race was not quite as assertive an issue but still relevant, was "The Skeleton Key", a movie that I feel never got its fair due among critics, possibly because it was lower-budget and didn't have major names in it. Nonetheless it was very well done, well-acted, and well-written, with a great plot. But alas, money doesn't talk, it screams.
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