POCcorn - The Secret Life of Bees

The POCcorn podcast reviews films created, directed and/or starring People of Color. Each show uses four questions to describe our thoughts on the film, plus one POCcorn moment we simply MUST discuss in detail.

In this episode, we discuss The Secret Life of Bees and select the "Kitchen Dance" scene as our POCcorn moment. This film, set in the 1960's, presented typical American racism on one end, and offered an atypical respite on the other. Though the film was centered around the white character, Lily, it nearly engulfed her story with a glimpse of black excellence at its best; in the same time period! We as viewers got to know May, June and August; three black women who owned their own land, their own home, their own church and their own business...in the south...in the 60's. The film hinted at the gruesome realities for women, and for black people at that time, but it also showed love, forgiveness and a sense of thriving despite those circumstances. Listen in!