I didn't know exactly what to expect when I began watching this movie. Alan Rickman has always been a favorite actor of mine, but I have seen him get a little "lazy" from time to time. Well, he really pulled out his acting chops for this one. But Mos Def, whom I had never seen before, really blew me away with his nuanced performance of Vivien Thomas. The two of them together created the type of chemistry on screen one can only imagine must have existed between the men they portrayed. The magic they created is shattered by the reality of segregation, and the movie presents this as fact rather than making moral judgments. (That's left for the viewer to examine and judge internally for his or her self.) The movie's pacing, dialogue, and mixture of medical science, surgical "drama", and harsh reality of the times was excellent. All in all, I was amazed by the film, the acting, the story line -- it's worth watching again.
Review of Something the Lord Made
