Movie review: 3-star DevotionMovie is a handsomely produced, anti-white savior drama
"Devotion" - ★ ★ ★ Ever since I began writing about Hollywood's white savior syndrome in 1986, I have seen only one movie that rejected the genre's implicit white supremacy themes:"Bring It On" , in which inner city black cheerleaders reject an offer of financial"help" from their white suburban peers so they can stay in the state cheerleading championship.
Navy fighter pilot Tom Hudner , right, becomes friends with fellow pilot Jesse Brown , the first black aviator to pass the Navy's basic training program in"Devotion." - Courtesy of Sony Pictures "Devotion" tells the fact-based social justice story of the conflict-fraught friendship between a white Navy fighter pilot, Tom Hudner , and Jesse Brown , the first Black aviator to complete the Navy's basic flight-training program.
In the historic drama"Devotion," Navy fighter pilot Tom Hudner , right, tries hard to protect his friend and fellow pilot Jesse Brown from racist attacks, but Brown prefers to settle things himself. - Courtesy of Sony Pictures Understandably, it takes a long, long time for Brown to accept Hudner's sincere offer of friendship. That's cemented when Brown introduces Hudner to his child and wife .
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