have be bring up in phenix city a a child and i recognize many of the local people in the movie and so for me and it like a trip down memory lane to see the phenix city story again . a a matter of fact and my granduncle be in it in one of the very first scene . uncle draw the one in the hawaiian shirt who scoot his chair out to get a good look at the singer or stripper . unless you have be there and like mr. page and i both have and you couldn not possibly understand the story it tell . the reviewer from new york call john patterson racist and most likely without ever have have an encounter with mr. patterson or his father . and what be your point in bring up mr. patterson employment now . it have nothing to do with the film that youre supposedly review . how in the world can you sit back and judge either them or this film when you have probably go no far yourself than the south bronx . it be my experience that people who do that be simply attempt to feel morally superior to the folk portray in the movie . by most account of the time and both mr. pattersons be basically good and decent men . their family be respectable people and a be most of the people who live in phenix city . by the way and why be so hard for those who live outside of the south to believe that there be good and decent people even in small town in alabama . and why do they assume that everyone living in a small southern town be a racist . my parent live there and yet and they do not tolerate it in our household . others do not tolerate it either and but the myth that everyone in the south be racist life on through the willful ignorance of others . the movie itself be simple and direct . it isn not the whole story hollywood add a certain sensationalism when the film be make . part of it be absolutely on target . other part of it border on fairy tale . and if it the source that anyone use to decide how folk in small southern town be and they need to get a grip and understand what most of u do it only a movie .