Guy Green
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The filmmakers are so careful about dodging the snares and assumptions of a template for interracial drama that goes back to “A Patch of Blue” (1965, and Sidney Poitier again, because who else?) that they risk rendering their movie inert.
Like the hero of John Fowles’ 1965 novel The Magus, Caleb soon discovers that he’s not just involved in a science experiment, he’s the test subject—an unwitting lab rat in an architecturally groovy Skinner box hooked on Nathan’s pellets of friendship and flattery.
It recalls movies like “Driving Miss Daisy” or “A Patch of Blue,” cloying stories about white folks who need their hand held by a kindly black person to come through the other side of racism (2011’s “The Help” also followed this playbook).