My husband and I went to see "Harriet" this morning at 11:45 am. I was determined to see the film and I'm babysitting tonight, so we squeezed it in between breakfast at an egg shop and the hardware store and dropping our almost 3 year old grandson's toy back at his house, as his trucks are sacrosanct, even if he's the one who left it here. I thought the film was beautiful and profound, and I wept pretty much all the way through it. The actors were amazing, and the story is more extraordinary than I had realized. Superficially, I was gratified that Harriet Tubman was five feet tall, as I am, and us wee folk can be powerful! I love seeing a film by a woman director, and Kesi Lemmons did a great job.
The bonus was seeing the previews, where 3 more films caught my eye: the one with Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers, the live people redo of Mulan, which is one of my favorite Disneys, and Terrance Malick's new film about a person in Scandinavia who tries to save Jews from the Nazis during World War II. Movies to look forward to. Actually, there was another preview with Lakeith Stanfield that also looked promising. Yeah! The Oscar season is bringing us riches!
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