I still see her character as a means to his actualization...his humanization. Sorry, but she was not the heroic figure in the end...he was. She was the one who needed him for shelter...and to "make her feel good." Insofar as loss, of course I've suffered loss, and I find that grief doesn't always manifest itself in one, predictable way, which is the way that Halle used to manifest her "grief." It was the easiest route for her to take...I'm not impressed by that...sorry.

And for the crabs in a barrel bullshit, I cried right along with the entire audience when Halle got that awards...I am happy for her as an individual, but I can't refrain from calling like I see it in the big picture. I can clearly see how awarding that role, in a context where NO OTHER Black female gets awarded for shit (on the other hand, White women get awarded for playing queens and harlots, druggies and cancer victims, etc.), fit perfectly into the racist paradigm Hollywood has functioned so well with maintaining...I see how the movie functioned as many movies do, as a way of perpetuating myths and stereotypes that I see as detrimental to us as a group.

I guess that's just me.