The movie played on everyone's sympathetic feelings, and probably more catered toward people who hasn't really experienced much racism, or don't know much about it, than someone who sees it everyday. Granted it has some cool bits and pieces, especially how everything fell together at the end. But for a film about racism, it was basically a hollywood styled movie that made something that's out of the ordinary a little too dramatic. Things like that happens all the time, and probably to a greater degree than the movie portrays, and the movie was made to have more of a shocking value than to realisticly describe the situation.