Seemed a bit anachronistic in the way most of the white people were sympathetic to the Jesse Brown character. I'd like to believe that it was accurate but I think he would face much more racial hostility than how it was portrayed.
I bet this movie gets a lot of "too woke" criticism.
The bio cards at the end were nice to see. I hope the family found this portrayal fitting of his memory.
I read a bit about him and he did get supported, especially once he was made an officer. In the end these guys have to look out for each other.
I'm also not so sure the French would have been racist. They were known to be more accepting of black soldiers but perhaps that changed by 1950.
On the non racial front I'm not so sure a bridge could be destroyed by two rockets.
There's a number of inaccuracies in the film.
I suspect it actually AVOIDS "too woke" criticism by refusing to make every white person a snarling racist.
shareThat was my thought. You can't win for losing on this issue. If they had portrayed more racism, there would have been cries of protest that it was "woke" and anti-white. As it is, the film included plenty of evidence of the racism Jesse Brown faced: apart from directly showing the hostility of the army guy who thought he had a chance with Liz Taylor (as if), it gave plenty of indirect evidence, such as the way he had of motivating himself by hurling at himself in the mirror the ugly racial epithets that had been thrown at him his whole life, his story about how he was forced to do the swim test ten times and the others tried to make him fail, his worry that the carrier radio control would purposely misdirect his plane so that he would crash, the fact that his CO refused to pin his wings on him at his graduation, etc.
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