A South African family is divided by race
di Betsy Sharkey The Los Angeles Times
There is a pivotal scene in "Skin," a truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story plucked out of the mess of South Africa's apartheid, when young Sandra Laing's father shouts the good news to the family -- "She's white again." Surreal and ironic, the moment captures the sensibility of this ambitious if sometimes uneven indie film with its eye always on the larger issues of race to be found within one unusual life.
Those three simple words turn out to be anything but good news for the dark-skinned Sandy, who was classified white at birth, then reclassified "colored" (mixed race) when she was about 10, then classified white once more a few years later, which is the moment captured by that scene. [...]
di Betsy Sharkey, articolo completo (4655 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 30 ottobre 2009
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