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Week of May 8, 2015
The System, The Machine and The Man control
The Grid. First up…
Selma
Whites didn’t want blacks voting down South
because they didn’t want them pointing out all the spelling mistakes on the
ballots.
Either way, as this drama confirms,
ignorance played a major role.
When Annie Lee Cooper (Oprah Winfrey) is
refused the right to vote through intimidation, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
(David Oyelowo) leads a coalition of activists and parishioners down to Selma,
Alabama to protest President Johnson’s (Tom Wilkinson) refusal to enforce voter
rights.
While many of their marches are marred by
violence, King’s moment gains footing and a white following.
However, J. Edgar Hoover (Dylan Baker)
schemes to sabotage King’s marriage and reputation.
An enlightening look at some of the most
important moments of the civil rights movement, Selma supports its facts with
surprising reveals concerning the effort and its fallible leader.
Incidentally, Selma already had a bad
reputation from burning all those witches back in the 1600s. Green Light
Black or White
The upside to a white couple raising a
black daughter is her not becoming obsessed with going to the tanning salon
everyday.
The cultural perks aside, this drama
focuses more on the disadvantages of a mixed-race family.
When his wife dies, Elliot (Kevin Costner)
is left to raise his deceased daughter’s half-white, half-black child Eloise
(Jillian Estell).
To help him through this transition, he
employs a tutor for his granddaughter and alcohol for his grief.
But when the mother (Octavia Spencer) of
Eloise’s real dad calls Elliot’s effectiveness as a father into question due to
his race, he must fight for custody in court.
While there is validity to the concerns
raised by the story, the over-sentimentality and weak performances undermine
the importance of the subject matter.
Besides, when a black family and a white
family can’t decide on who will raise a child, it naturally defaults to an
Asian family. Red Light
Fifty Shades of Grey
Thanks to political correctness, the only
place you can spank someone nowadays is in the boudoir.
Or, a sex dungeon – like the one featured
in this drama.
During an interview with philanthropist
Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan), literary major Anastasia (Dakota Johnson)
strikes a cord with the reserved industrialist.
A chance encounter reunites them and they
form a bond.
Before it goes further, however, Christian
presents Ana with a sex contract detailing the acts of BDSM he hopes to inflict
upon her.
Hesitant, she eventually agrees and
receives gifts in exchange for her submission.
But Christian’s callousness causes her to
question if she can ever change her troubled torturer.
With laughable dialogue delivered by
amateurish actors this soft-core composite of every female fantasy is as vapid
and tawdry as its best selling literary inspiration.
What’s more, abused women finally have a
better excuse for their bruises than falling down the stairs. Red Light
***Submission: Impossible***
Secretary
The ironic thing about safe words is
they’re useless when you have a ball-gag in your mouth.
The submissive in this drama, however,
doesn’t contemplate mercy.
After her release from hospital, ex-cutter
Lee (Maggie Gyllenhaal) lands a job as a legal secretary to E. Edward Grey
(James Spader).
Grey’s exacting nature causes her to
relapse. However, her obedience and pain threshold strikes a cord in Grey, who
proposes they partake in BDSM.
Over time, he withdraws from the
relationship out of embarrassment and she pursues a more orthodox dating life.
But one final act of submission on Lee’s
part thrusts Grey back into her life.
Exploring the emotionally foreplay between the
characters more than exploiting the erotic elements of their union, Secretary
comes off as a smart, sophisticated take on BDSM, and relationships in general.
Incidentally, women’s fetish for bondage
goes back to being tied to train-tracks by mustachioed villains.
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