Based on a true story, “The Best of Enemies” centers on the unlikely partnering up of outspoken civil rights activist Ann Atwater ( Taraji P. Now, America’s history of racial strife is being sanitized all over again, with recent films like “The Help,” “Green Book” and now “The Best of Enemies” (each written and directed by white filmmakers), which render darker aspects of Civil Rights era-struggle more palatable by trivializing them. 'The Last of Us': Everything You Need to Know About HBO's Adaptation Jackson Support Jussie Smollett, Believe 'Punishment Does Not Fit the Crime'Ī History of Unsimulated Sex Scenes in Cannes Films, from 'Mektoub' to 'Antichrist' 'See How They Run' Trailer: Saoirse Ronan and Sam Rockwell Solve a '50s Murder Mystery
Griffith asserted that he was simply depicting the historical truth, a similar defense mounted by filmmakers like “Green Book” director Peter Farrelly - a claim that may be apropos when the phrase “alternative facts” actually carries weight. Prior to WWII, seminal films like “The Birth of a Nation” (1915) and “Gone with the Wind” (1939) helped formulate popular misconceptions of the Reconstruction with ahistorical portrayals of the antebellum South. This problem has some precedents in Hollywood. And “ The Best of Enemies” is the latest proof that Hollywood needs to find new ways to tell these stories. There are exceptions, but in the crudest cases, the black person in question is usually just a narrative device for an emotional arc built around the white character’s transformation. The formula is often the same: Stories are set in the Civil Rights era - from the mid-1950s through the early 1970s - and center on black-white relationships, with a white protagonist who is transformed by a relationship with a black person. For better or worse, race-reconciliation movies are a longstanding Hollywood tradition.
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