I've never been prejudiced in my life and you know it

On Driving Miss Daisy:

I did not get too much out of this film. Basically Miss Daisy is a stubborn, old, southern, Jewish woman and her driver, Hoke, is an old black man. Miss Daisy is kicking-and-screaming most of the way, but Hoke's persistence, along with the help of Boolie's wallet, leads to their inevitable friendship. The relationship they eventually reach is sweet, but it takes years and years, right up to when senility starts to set in with the old couple. I think that the point of this movie is that there are, or at least were 50 years ago, people like this.

Miss Daisy gets old fast. In both senses of the phrase. By the end of the movie she is in her 90s and going senile. She is a stubborn old lady, and when she crashes her car at the beginning of the movie, she denies that she needs a driver. She is not exactly fond of the driver her son hires for her, and as a cherry on top of the sundae of discontent, the driver, Hoke, is black. Now, Miss Daisy is not prejudiced (as she puts it). She already has a black house maid, but with the driver she has to been seen everywhere with this black man and the two are forced to cross paths more, so Miss Daisy is not happy about the situation.

Hoke is the most interesting character in the movie. Since the first scene he is in to the last he is trying to do nice things for other people. His persistence with other people, namely Miss Daisy, is what makes him so special. Hoke is not mad that he can't read. He is not mad that Miss daisy for being so stubborn. He is not mad that he is poor and black. He is not mad at life, he is not angry. No matter how unfair things are, be is not a fighter. It reminds me of the Martin Luther King quote at the end of Do the Right Thing, "an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind". Hoke is the hand of love, like Da Mayor in Do the Right Thing. Do the Right Thing reinforced the idea that there are the two main different kinds of black characters in the movies I have been watching, those who fight back, however they think is right, and those who live life. It is just like the hand of love and the hand of hate, and this idea was further reinforced with Hoke's character. Next on the list is Boyz N the Hood.