3 out of 4 people found the following comment useful :- More of a near miss than a resounding success, 20 January 2004
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Chris Docker (eyeforfilm) from Scotland, United Kingdom
A half-caste aborigine in 1950s Australia is sentenced to death on little
more than racist supposition over the rape and murder of a young girl.
Penniless and inexperienced good-guy lawyers, Robert Carlyle and Kerry Fox,
go up against the system to save the man's neck from the gallows. David
Ngoombujarra, as the half-caste, turns in a moving performance, the story
has sufficient emotional pace, legal twists and unusual setting, yet for
some reason manages to peter down like a wet squib. The climax doesn't seem
to do the rest of the film justice, and the reminder that it is based on
true events comes too late (at the very end of the credits) to have the
proper impact. Black and White is an interesting film, but more of a near
miss than a resounding success.
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3 out of 4 people found the following comment useful :-

More of a near miss than a resounding success, 20 January 2004
Author: Chris Docker (eyeforfilm) from Scotland, United Kingdom
A half-caste aborigine in 1950s Australia is sentenced to death on little more than racist supposition over the rape and murder of a young girl. Penniless and inexperienced good-guy lawyers, Robert Carlyle and Kerry Fox, go up against the system to save the man's neck from the gallows. David Ngoombujarra, as the half-caste, turns in a moving performance, the story has sufficient emotional pace, legal twists and unusual setting, yet for some reason manages to peter down like a wet squib. The climax doesn't seem to do the rest of the film justice, and the reminder that it is based on true events comes too late (at the very end of the credits) to have the proper impact. Black and White is an interesting film, but more of a near miss than a resounding success.
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