SOME FURTHER THEOLOGICAL RUMINATIONS ON FOUR 1997 FILMS (Including ROSEWOOD)

(The four films reviewed in the April 1997 issue are Secrets & Lies; Marvin’s Room; Sling Blade; and Rosewood.) “It isn’t good for the man to live alone,” the author of the second Genesis creation story has God declare. And so he relates the story of the  creation of the woman,  the two forming a …

Rosewood (1997)

This harrowing true story based on a racist massacre of Blacks manages to inspire hope due to the efforts of a few courageous Blacks, and even some whites, to help victims.

Queen & Slim (2019)

The story of an unlikely black couple who, in flight from a cop killing, journey through the South where both blacks & whites consider them folk heroes.