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Free Movie Ideas's avatar

curious to know if you guys would also not-love The Baby of Macon

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Reids on Film's avatar

The Cook, The Thief, great. Draughtsman’s Contract, great. Baby of Macon… erm, not so great.

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Free Movie Ideas's avatar

I had a feeling you’d say that. I disagree on both counts—justice for the classical obscene!

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ASensibleMan's avatar

On the upside, there were probably no historically white characters played by non-whites.

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Callum Reid's avatar

By 180AD, one third of Roman Senators were born in Africa. “Whites/Non-whites” as terminology are a completely redundant and ahistorical way of describing demographics in Roman antiquity.

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