If I remember correctly there was this relationship between a black maid and a white man in this movie. Can anyone tell me if they know of any other movies something like this happens? An interracial relationship, especially at the time it wasn't looked on very well.
Thank you=)
Band of Angels
Island in the Sun
Pinky
etc., etc.
Jungle Fever
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Alex Haley's Queen (It's one of my favorite Halle Berry films.)
While it wasn't a film I read that Orson Welles and Eartha Kitt had an affair back in the day. It was kept quiet. There's always been interracial relationships, it's just more common now.
great forgotten movie:
ONE POTATO, TWO POTATO (1964) with Barbara Barrie & Bernie Hamilton
... back then in 1964 it was radical to put in a movie.
interracial relationships... "at the time wasn't looked upon so..." At what time? 1995 when the movie was made it was quite acceptable... the fact that it's a 1995 film with scenes set in an earlier era (when interracial relationships would have been more taboo) means the story is exploring this aspect of life (or trying to shock).
"The good end happily, the bad unhappily, that is why it is called Fiction."
I didn't see it as relationship, just a hookup. A privileged white man taking advantage of a young girl obviously smitten with him.
SPOILER:
The very next scene following the lovemaking shows her pregnant and being sent away. I didn't get the feeling that papa was ever part of the picture. Did I miss some important dialogue that suggested he thought more of her than some pretty piece of tail for the night? I should watch that part that Angelou narrates again.
No, you didn't miss anything. Anna never talks about him. Just that her true love was her daughter, instead of a husband. I wish we could've gotten more scenes with Anna and Beck, but I understand that their "forbidden" relationship or fling, wasn't really the point.
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