#The best of enemies movie

It also unfolds in a comfortably distant past (in this case, nearly 50 years ago), when the prospect of a dyed-in-the-wool racist coming to embrace school integration is designed to make us feel good - even as our own era presents a tangle of racial conflict thatвЂ™s not nearly so easily resolvable. While hardly a вЂњwhite saviorвЂќ movie, вЂњThe Best of EnemiesвЂќ is yet another drama in which the cause of racial justice becomes a way for a white person to вЂњgrow.вЂќ In its very form, the film turns the primal sin of American racism into a вЂњsymmetricalвЂќ black/white problem.

To me, though, whatвЂ™s even more eyebrow-raising is that the film makes the transformation convincing.

#The best of enemies movie

(And pigs can fly, and Donald Trump intended his tax cut to help the middle class.) You can feel just how much this film is going to be hated in some quarters, and what those critics will say: that in 2019, the last thing America needs is a message movie about a Klansman who turns into a liberal Teddy bear. You watch вЂњThe Best of EnemiesвЂќ and think: Is this really going to be the story of an avowed white supremacist, the sort of man who leads cross burnings and gun-blasting raids, who in a little over two hours of screen time sees his evil ideas fade and his icy heart melt to humanity? Well, yes, it is.