Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

My friend and I went to see "Seberg", starring Kirsten Stewart and Anthony Mackie.  I had remembered seeing Jean Seberg on the cover of Life Magazine when I was a kid, and how Otto Preminger, the director, searched the country for his star of Joan of Arc.  It was as if a princess had been discovered, but I never actually saw the film when it came out.  I was a student with no money.  I did not follow her career, but I knew she died young.  This story of her life, focusing on just a couple of years, stirred my friend's and my emotions.  We were both married to black men, and this era portrays her affair with a Black power activist.  Her support of "the revolution" caused her to be hounded by the FBI, and it destroyed her career in America.  My friend and I remember how much unwanted attention we received for our marriages.  And how our children from those marriages faced and still face racism today.  I thought the film was fascinating, because Stewart's performance is so tense and vulnerable and she is not a stereotype in any way.  My friend, as we were eating after, compared her destruction to Jane Fonda's weathering of her radical stance.  But as my friend said, Fonda did exercise videos to get herself back out of the limelight.  She had to wed herself to Ted Turner to become America's darling again.  Seberg never backed down.