I saw this movie many years ago and barely remember anything of it. What made him black? Was it "karma" or as one of my friends would say PFM (Pure F'ing Magic)?
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It's never explained in the movie. The doctor suggests he had black ancestry all along and it just now was showing itself.
shareIt was more symbolic than asking the obvious theory of his physical change.
He despised blacks so much that his body becomes the instrument to his mental disorder.
very clever and ahead of its time.
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In the movie he turned black because he would lay under a sun lamp and rub a home made tanning lotion on his skin that contained iodine. He was a health nut trying to get a tan. It's kind of a funny reference to the book/movie "Black Like Me" were a white reporter did the same thing to his skin to experience what it's like to be a black man.
shareLet's attribute it to a Rod Serling-like twist that gives Jeff Gerber his comeuppance at being an arrogant Caucasian bigot.
Remember, though, he's not merely a blowhard around black people --- he's equally a jerk with whites, too. Gerber infuriates his insurance-company boss, Mr. Townsend, with his "smartass" quips.
"Soy Sauce!"
PFM. The character blames it on his obsession with tanning, but that wouldn't give him krinkly hair too.
shareI think it's up to the viewer: Was it God? Was it karma? Was it some type of VooDoo? Or was it simply a dream?
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No, it wasn't me... It was the one armed man!
Look upon it as the reverse of Madonna, Justin Bieber, Justin Timberlake, Vanilla Ice and all the rest who can mimic and imitate even 'live among' black people all they want, they do not become more black.
Elvis at least was from the roots and soil of the land.
It was PFM.
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