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Change
of Mind
Blaxploitation staple Raymond St. Jacques
(Book of Numbers, Cotton Comes to Harlem)
stars in this compelling and challenging
mediation on racism in the United States.
Jacques plays David Rowe, a white man whose
brain has been transplanted into a black
mans body. Rowe is a district attorney and
he soon begins to feel the sting of racism
everywhere he goes. Even his wife and friends
treat him differently. The local sheriff
(played by Leslie Nielsen) shows his racist
nature when he first encounters Rowe in
his new body, insulting him and treating
him with total disrespect. But when the
sheriff gets into legal trouble for murdering
his black mistress, it’is Rowe who
must defend him. Change of Mind was a revolutionary
film for the time, a movie that took the
ugly reality of racism on and showed the
absolute absurdity of it all. An added bonus
is the soundtrack by Duke Ellington.
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Color/ 80 Min./1974 |
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