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146: Disney’s Most Controversial Film (Six Degrees of Song of the South, Episode 1)

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Movie Review - Remus and the Animals

There is a way to read this for its irony and to see remuss frolic with imaginary animals as his way of coping with the pretty shitty situation of living and working on a plantation during reconstruction. The movie doesn't want you to think about any of that. It just wants you to see remus as a magical negro who has the ower to conjure up this more beautiful world for little johnny's enjoyment. This message gets an odd spin in one of the movies most controversial segments, when brer fox sets a trap for brer rabbit by creating a baby out of tar and leaving it by the side of the road. I'm my best to bring up johnny to be

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