The Single Moms Club Movie Download

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In the best tradition of GONE WITH THE WIND . . .
. . . SINGLE MOMS CLUB’s producerwriterstardirector Tyler Perry pays homage to another long-gone American vestige of yesteryear, The Middle Class. Though The Middle Class admittedly is a little more recent in our collective memory today than the Plantation Class was for GWTW’s initial viewers in 1939, that does not mean that history will validate the rosy picture Perry paints here any more than GWTW is taken seriously today. The Motion Picture Academy effectively just canceled out GWTW’s “Best Picture” Oscar by giving the same award to 12 YEARS A SLAVE, which sets out to prove that GWTW’s “happy plantation days” are one big, fat lie. Mr. Perry bravely ignores this current rebuke of racial stereotyping, making the white prep school principal and white single mom “Hillary” total ninnies in the old “step-and-fetch-it” tradition of directors lampooning their differently-raced actors with the most demeaning caricatures possible. Showing white single-mom “Jan” totally tone deaf and rhythm-challenged is no different than Thomas Edison’s company filming Blacks eating only watermelon and fried chicken in 1900. Kudos to the three white actresses taking on these sure-to-be-controversial parts, despite the risk of their being labeled as “race traitor Aunt Thomasinas” for the rest of their film careers. A 12 YEARS A SLAVE-style antidote already is available on-line to document the actual last gasp of the American Middle Class: it’s titled REQUIEM FOR A DREAM.Read More