That this movie is finely crafted is beyond doubt. The acting is good, and it is nicely photographed and edited, but when it belies the truth it drops several notches down.
According to many posters and factual material, the story line takes great liberty with the facts of Carter's life. A similar story was told in I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG with Paul Muni. Innocent man goes to jail, escapes, gets caught, goes back to jail. Only he was innocent and Carter seems guilty of a lot of antisocial activity.
In a sense the movie is racist because it portrays facts that are seemingly untrue for dramatic effect and to sell the film to "gullible" audiences searching for racism everywhere.
One of the lines in the movie is by the kid who is "adopted" by the Canadian couple, "are you helping me because I am black or do you have pity for me", all too often the answer is yes, which is a demeaning attitude.
During an interview, Tracy from SNL, was asked about Loren Michael hiring him and he said that Loren said, " I am hiring you because you are funny, not because you are black," and Tracy said that made all the difference to him in his career.
This movie really serves to fan the fires of injustice not to shed light on it. In the Heat of the Night and The Shawshank Redemption are much better examples of racial injustice and interracial friendships.
Perhaps if were called Round One, and been totally fictional it would have been more inspiring.
According to many posters and factual material, the story line takes great liberty with the facts of Carter's life. A similar story was told in I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG with Paul Muni. Innocent man goes to jail, escapes, gets caught, goes back to jail. Only he was innocent and Carter seems guilty of a lot of antisocial activity.
In a sense the movie is racist because it portrays facts that are seemingly untrue for dramatic effect and to sell the film to "gullible" audiences searching for racism everywhere.
One of the lines in the movie is by the kid who is "adopted" by the Canadian couple, "are you helping me because I am black or do you have pity for me", all too often the answer is yes, which is a demeaning attitude.
During an interview, Tracy from SNL, was asked about Loren Michael hiring him and he said that Loren said, " I am hiring you because you are funny, not because you are black," and Tracy said that made all the difference to him in his career.
This movie really serves to fan the fires of injustice not to shed light on it. In the Heat of the Night and The Shawshank Redemption are much better examples of racial injustice and interracial friendships.
Perhaps if were called Round One, and been totally fictional it would have been more inspiring.