- In his defense, this is black people hair we’re talking about. Nobody knows how it works.
Black or White is offensive.
Not because of its patronizing view of race relations, not because of the horrible acting—although that is all there in spades. It’s offensively boring. Every minute of this movie felt like an hour. In the back of my head was one of those cartoon clocks going “tick… tick… tick… tick.” I feel like this movie is a horrible fountain of youth. You exit the theater feeling as if you’ve lived an entire lifetime in two hours. Not a good lifetime, a lifetime in a coma. But a long 98 years nonetheless…