Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any CREATIVE practice, some INDIVIDUALS, whether partners or DIRECTORS, are much CLOSER to certain projects than I COULD ever be.
I THINK that often TIMESHOLLYWOOD panders to the cliches of small town LIFE, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the OPPOSITE.
I have a great DEAL of SYMPATHY for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In my CASE, it wasn't until I was 13 and discovered the 'Lord of the RINGS' that I LEARNED to love reading.
There is a GREATSTIR about colored men GETTING their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men GET their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.