"Cabin in the Sky" was a great film and a milestone in the treatment of African Americans. Before this film , there was very little positive treatment of Black America. Sexuality in the African American society was rarely treated in American films after 1915 specifically in D.W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation." In this film , the message transferred to an audiences was that many black men were lusting after young white women. This false notion led to the group hero in the film-the KKK. Their main mission , according to the film, was to protect and save white women from the sexual obsession of blacks."Cabin in the Sky" is a religious but also a very sexy film.Men and women , in this case all black , have driving , healthy, not always moral sexual desires. The characters are not confined to kitchens,train stations, as maids and as butlers or shoeshiners. These sexual desires are often in conflict with traditional morality as seen in "Cabin." But this struggle is also a human struggle in all races . The film communicates this equality with all human nature with song , with dance , with dialog , with costuming.So ,despite the many stereotypes in the film,the equality of sexual desire is a milestone in "Cabin in the Sky." Griffith's view stands corrected. Amen!
Review of Cabin in the Sky
