For some reason I don't quite understand...I guess it has something to do with all the trips I took through coastal Georgia heading for Florida to visit my mother...I tend to be attracted to films about 'the low country'. That's the main reason this film caught my attention to begin with.
There are a lot of things to like about this film. I rather liked Kristen Renton and Maurice Johnson as the two lead characters (at least in the present time). I liked the setting (that house looked familiar...used in other films?). And I liked the overall theme that to SOME degree at least, with SOME people, there is a 'new South'. That's the hopeful message here.
On the other hand, there are some things that I don't like about this film. There were times when I thought there was a lot of inconsistency in the story, details when I thought, 'well, that doesn't seem quite right'. And then there was that coincidence that two people who didn't know each other in the past, but have an historical connection they didn't know about, both end up to be lawyers, who happen to have to share an office space, and eventually discover their connection, becoming an interracial couple. In movies we often have to suspend disbelief, but that coincidence was difficult for me to overlook. It kinda nagged at me.
However, when all was said and done, I rather enjoyed this film. The overall message was a good one. And they certainly gave us two characters to hate...who come to fitting ends.
What I had to do to enjoy this film...and I did enjoy it...was to relax my standards just a bit in terms of critiquing the screenplay while I was watching it.
There are a lot of things to like about this film. I rather liked Kristen Renton and Maurice Johnson as the two lead characters (at least in the present time). I liked the setting (that house looked familiar...used in other films?). And I liked the overall theme that to SOME degree at least, with SOME people, there is a 'new South'. That's the hopeful message here.
On the other hand, there are some things that I don't like about this film. There were times when I thought there was a lot of inconsistency in the story, details when I thought, 'well, that doesn't seem quite right'. And then there was that coincidence that two people who didn't know each other in the past, but have an historical connection they didn't know about, both end up to be lawyers, who happen to have to share an office space, and eventually discover their connection, becoming an interracial couple. In movies we often have to suspend disbelief, but that coincidence was difficult for me to overlook. It kinda nagged at me.
However, when all was said and done, I rather enjoyed this film. The overall message was a good one. And they certainly gave us two characters to hate...who come to fitting ends.
What I had to do to enjoy this film...and I did enjoy it...was to relax my standards just a bit in terms of critiquing the screenplay while I was watching it.