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re: I Think It's Fine

Posted by:	Chromolume 04:17 am EDT 08/17/14
In reply to:	re: I Think It's Fine - enoch10 12:14 am EDT 08/17/14

I would also say there are of course specific smaller "abouts" (as there are in any story) - the hanging, anti-Semitism (and racism in general), murder and rape, a huge court trial, the mystery of the whole case in general, etc - but to me, I think the overall "about" as it's set up by Brown and Uhry is how a very set, traditional, unyielding society reacts to an outsider. I think songs such as "How Can I Call This Home" set this relationship right from the beginning (with the actual opening "Old Red Hills" sequence setting up the unforgiving world of the post-war South), and it's this feel of the outsider against the community that drives the story for me. Inasmuch as the plot is about the incidents leading to Phagan's death, the trial. and Frank's lynching, to me the more overarching "about" is the community versus the outsider. And yes, we can all see the show in different ways. ;-)

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