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Black. White. (2006)
Racist crap
I have possibly never been so insulted by a show in all of my life. The black family (sorry I can never remember any of the names) with the exception of the son (which possibly shows that society is improving?)is volatile and blatantly racist, the white mother and daughter are desperately trying to connect (although in the mothers case a little naively) and the white father asks questions that no one is willing to even discuss with him in a calm manner much less concede that they may be important. This show claims to take two families from different races and show them how the other half lives, in fact it does not. What it does is dress white people up to look black then force them to feel guilty and isolated. I challenge you to watch a single episode and come up with a different conclusion. Half an episode. Lets start with the "N" word (that is the way I use that word when I infrequently have occasion to). The black son was with some white kids (in white make-up but having told them he was black) and they asked him how he felt about them saying "what's up my nigga". He personally was unoffended. I'm thinking "Ah a middle ground. Finally we have people interacting as people without all the artifice of color, culture and ego. Just people". When his parents found out about about that however they seriously chewed him out and DEMANDED that he be offended by something that was not meant to be offensive to begin with, but was offered out of innocence or a desire to understand. I threw up my hands. Saying that white people absolutely have no RIGHT to say something simply because they are white regardless of how they meant it is circular logic that is intended to keep blacks and whites apart in perpetuity. So here goes. My nigga. There I said it. I just exercised my right to say anything I damn well please. I hope you all felt the love because that was what I intended. (In answer to any questions I am indeed biracial although because of my looks most people have assumed I am everything from Native-American to Hispanic. But I am half-white).
Liar, Liar (1993)
icky but standard
Most of the suspense in this amazingly grotesque little movie revolves around whether or not the young girl is telling the truth about her father sexually molesting her -- extremely cheap and exploitive handling of a serious subject matter. He did by the way, brutally anally raping her and most of her siblings in the bathroom in the guise of helping them bathe or as punishment.
However if you enjoy watching movies about child abuse (and there are definitely some of you out there for whatever reasons or else they wouldn't keep churning out these TV movies) then you'll probably find this one moderately entertaining. Although I would recommend Whose Afraid of the Muffin Man instead, both for treatment of the subject matter and as a rare artifact from the age when reports of satanic ritual abuse were assumed to be true rather than a byproduct of poor interview techniques.