--and still, the sun

1950
Hard not to love a film which so earnestly defends the right of every individual to identity. Capitalist warmth is unmasked as cruelty with the same grace as masked men are gifted centre frame. The film is not one of forgiveness nor moral relativism but recognition. Our preacher carries the weight of a brutal history which the film asks us not to forget, we first meet him with pistols and his closest bonds were those forged by war. The Klan imagery…