The Defiant Ones (1958)

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The Defiant Ones

“James Baldwin famously derided this as white liberal wish fulfillment, and he wasn’t off the mark. Stanley Kramer’s cinema at its most essential elements is just that, well-intentioned if sanctimonious liberal guilt/fantasy. The Defiant Ones is another entry in that canon as it literalizes elements of racism by shackling the races together in a chain gang.   Never mind reality when there’s an elaborate metaphor to explore racial tensions during the civil rights movement. It’s a long-form fable that starts out like The Fugitive, car crash that leaves two prisoners chained together on the run with the law in hot pursuit, before providing a series of moralizing episodes that explore a host of issues. Some of them are great and some of them are heavy-handed in their treatment, more” read more

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