[Erik25241]

I agree with the first response as far as it goes, but the inital question wasn’t necessarily referring to the negative portrayal of whites, but possibly to another bothersome aspect of a certain type of race-oriented Hollywood flick. Disclaimer: I haven’t seen The Green Mile, but it appears to follow a long line of movies–To Kill a Mockingbird, Mississippi Burning, The Ghosts of Mississippi, to name just a few–set in the South which depict every black as a poor, helpless victim and every white as a demonic, racist fiend; and only when the liberal Northern white (or the sole nonracist Southern white) comes to town to rescue the black folks is all made right and the bad guys punished. Even where a film gives us a heroic, initiative-taking Southern black person, the audience gets his/her story through the eyes of an audience stand-in: the white, righteously liberal visitor who avenges or otherwise earns the respect of the strong black man on behalf of all righteous, movie-ticket-buying white folks. The ads and reviews for The Green Mile certainly seem to play into this well-meant but racist and embarrassing story pattern. Thanks for reading…

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Name : Erik25241, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 36, City : Ann Arbor, State : MI, Country : United States, Occupation : Law student, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, 

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