Any particular reason for having many of the female characters be black?

Wasn't it the same woman who was with Tom Waits and Christopher Walken? That was how I saw it.

I think: The movie makes a point about bad female dialogue and characters, and also the poor black girl that gets no justice within the law appears twice. It's more like a red herring or poetic symmetry. Or a theme. Or about how random details make things feel connected when they are not.

The movie didn't specifically call it out, but it was so poignant for her to have been the same woman that was what I thought too.

Myra was played by Linda Bright Clay, and Maggie by Amanda Warren.

She aged, so she looked differently, and maybe she changed her name after breaking up with Tom Waits, and repented her ways and found peace with Christopher Walken. He was a proper, old time, Christian. I liked that she could have found some much needed closure with a man like that.

One was dark skinned and the other one was a lighter complexion.

People who think they could have been the same are fools. Seriously, do Halle Berry and Lupita Nyongo look the same to you?

This love will be your downfall

Why does having black women or people in general have to be a "thing"? Seriously you don't hear people saying is there a deeper meaning to this all white cast? Maybe the women were exactly what the director was looking for. God forbid they won the audition's on their own merit.

Which goes to prove a hypothesis I have about some people's affection for racial slurs. Some people love to hear them. It's like they would hear it on a loop forever. I think it's excites them. I feel like its hackney piss poor writing. The "racist is the bad guy" is a formula that has been overused. It wasn't necessary to the story. The story was brilliant in parts but it lacked total cohesiveness. The writer's lack of imagination in creating believable villain ruined this film for me. I was disappointed in this film at that point. Was there no other way to communicate his surprise at finding a black woman married a white man? I didn't find the Woody Harrelson character to be a bad ass. I mean he murdered a cancer survivor over a dog. Hardly a bad ass.

In response to the op the female characters had to be black to excuse their rape and murder. If the victims had been white the general public would have been jarred by their sudden demise/departure. It's a plot point. When the writer first hears the story from the nut ball about Zach, he assumed the raped victim was white. I was disturbed at the ease in which the color of the victim affected the story. I'm still not ready to believe that.

They're the same person, it seems by the comments myself and many other people come to that conclusion.