As the summary/title implies I didn't think this was going to be that great, and I was pleasantly surprised. I think what sold me on it was the fact that the two main characters, i.e., the individuals who made up the interracial couple, wound up together. I didn't expect that.
The film was a combination of the predictable and the unpredictable, the above being an example of the latter. As these two characters endeavored to be together, to have their relationship despite the predictable obstacles you'd expect in the 1941 South, they encountered typical racist people and their behaviors.
But the plot and the film were uplifted by the "true Christian" character played by Margo Martindale, and by the ending in which the sympathetic black friend/employee (played by Lorraine Touissant) had an encounter with the racist "Christian" woman. In this encounter, happily and to my surprise, no one got shot, though there was a gun, and no one even got hurt. In fact,the happy ending of the couple going off together resulted from this encounter. The very end, of course, is bittersweet where the couple is together, but in a Japanese internment camp, which, somehow because of their ongoing love, doesn't seem quite so terrible.
I really enjoyed the acting of all four main characters. I also thought they were well cast, as visually their faces are all unique and engaging in their own ways.
The film was a combination of the predictable and the unpredictable, the above being an example of the latter. As these two characters endeavored to be together, to have their relationship despite the predictable obstacles you'd expect in the 1941 South, they encountered typical racist people and their behaviors.
But the plot and the film were uplifted by the "true Christian" character played by Margo Martindale, and by the ending in which the sympathetic black friend/employee (played by Lorraine Touissant) had an encounter with the racist "Christian" woman. In this encounter, happily and to my surprise, no one got shot, though there was a gun, and no one even got hurt. In fact,the happy ending of the couple going off together resulted from this encounter. The very end, of course, is bittersweet where the couple is together, but in a Japanese internment camp, which, somehow because of their ongoing love, doesn't seem quite so terrible.
I really enjoyed the acting of all four main characters. I also thought they were well cast, as visually their faces are all unique and engaging in their own ways.