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The guardian

this film discusses the issues in the film about black people in a white dominated society, the connotation is he misrepresentation of those black people and ways they could overcome it. furthermore another connotation is the impact that all those social conflicts and even change can have on a persons life. the denotation for the movie was man which was an average mundane obeying person who questions his faith due to his sons political view and rebellion about the rights he deserved as a human which happened to be black.

The Atlantic 

This is a historical drama set in the 1960s which was a significant earner for the African Americans due to civil rights movements which embarked both political and social arguments about the role of black people in America. Due to its narrative structure and the dicussion of issues it was compared to forest gump. This shows the traditional representations of black people being labelled as second class citizens in comparison to the whites of America. 

 Daily Mail

Oprah was Christianised because people thought her acting was forced and she was only given the role because of her popularity. However there are alternative representations of black people in this film, this is mainly due to the main character Cecile Gaines is a black butler being treated as a friend by the white president of the united states. the friend role he plays defeats the dominate representation of black people being worthless and ignored.