What do you consider “The Battle for the Ages”?
Post your answer in the LEAVE A COMMENT section below. I’m not the boss of you, though. Don’t write anything for all I care! I don’t want to get into an all-time rumble over it.
. . .here are my thoughts.
What do you consider “The Battle for the Ages”?
The movie, Respect, about Aretha Franklin’s life, combines music and religion … neither of which are my cup of garbage water (Coach Ted Lasso’s exquisite description of tea). Over half of the 145-minute runtime was just Jennifer Hudson singing. An important setting for the film was inside a church. And there was substantial overlap in that Venn diagram. I could overlook all the tunes and worship, but I simply couldn’t get past young Aretha bearing children at the ages of 12 and 14. The film vaguely portrayed the pregnancies resulting from ongoing statutory rape or some other form of persistent sexual assault. You see, Aretha’s father was a Baptist minister. Imagine a Baptist minister—in the culture of the Deep South in the mid-1950s—with a bastard grandchild born to his 12-year-old daughter. Explain to me how the minister wasn’t completely lambasted by his congregation! Aretha’s father could have been run out of the church faster than Usain Bolt covers 100 meters. More than the singing and religion, I’m thoroughly troubled by this unaddressed “Battle for the Ages”:
Baptist Minister vs. Unwed Pre-teen Mother
How was this issue shown no R-E-S-P-E-C-T?