Miss Evers' Boys

It's hard to really describe reactions to a movie like this without taking time to really digest the film as a whole. It really is writing these posts that does me a lot of good in figuring out how film is put together, how it works and doesn't. Part of the problem I have with movies is that I find it hard to hate a movie. Even somethign like Raising Helen or 13 Going on 30 I can make myself sit through and "enjoy". Not that this has much of anything to do with Miss Evers' Boys.
The story, as a character study, is quite well done as we watch Miss Evers (Alfre Woodard) trying to grasp her place in something that is beyond her control. She does what she can because she cares for those in her stewardship. She hold on to an increasingly faint hope that leaves one, by the end, wondering if it ever really existed. Those causes we fight with no end in sight and no reason in memory.
As a political force, the movie is okay, this for the very reason that the cause lacks sense or reason. They hold on to the idea that what they are doing is proving that negros are not physically inferior to the whites, but to a great degree their cause becomes lost when the subject becomes moot point, i.e. what does it matter who catches syphilis more if a ready cure is availible? I suppose my point here is that the personal grasping at logic, and the lack of logic they struggle with, is the very reason why it loses political force. It's hard to make a statement about a cause that you, by definition, do not understand.
I'm probably wrong and have missed the point all together.

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