Was anyone uncomfortable with the way Marlene initially treated Charlie? First she treated him like so much dirt under her feet and then treated him like a slave. I remember thinking the first time I saw it if Marlene had talked to me the way she initially talked to Charlie, I would have backhanded her.
shareYou have to remember the time set. No political correctness in this era. Marlene was what poor Southern white trash were then (and some still are, alas: ignorant and hateful.
shareOf course Marlene is a bigot. That's what the whole story is about. The audience is supposed to feel uncomfortable.
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You're missing the entire point of the movie.
shareI first saw it when I was younger and it was re-broadcast on one of our independent channels as a Saturday afternoon matinee movie (way before we had a gazillion cable channels, but long after the original broadcast). I remember being shocked hearing the N-word on regular TV. But I was blown away with both actors' performances. Years later, I bought it on video...and just a few years after that, I happened to move to Galveston Island, near Bolivar where the movie was filmed.
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