So…this
movie isn't very good, right? It's one of the first Best Picture winners and it
feels more like a Crash (scattered and maybe a little racist) than The
Departed (potentially forgettable but a good and enjoyable movie). At the
beginning, I kind of thought it was going to be Far & Away on a
Great Depression budget. That went away pretty quickly and turned into this
decades-hopping movie about a woman thriving despite her husband repeatedly
getting wanderlust and disappearing for years at a time. I know I'm supposed to
do some mental calculus regarding older movies and how they treat race (i.e.
forget some elements that weren’t as racist at the time), but this was still
deeply uncomfortable to watch at times. Accurate or not, the scene of the slave
boy acting as a fan for the family at the dinner table then falling on the food
just made me cringe. In my quest to see all the Best Picture winners, Cimarron
will be an easy one to forget.
Verdict:
Strongly Don't Recommend
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