Well, I was looking for the movie "As Summers Die" with Jamie Lee Curtis. Somehow that search yielded this movie on YouTube. Ah well! I'm already here, may as well watch it.
The movie is about Johnnie Mae Gibson (played by Lynn Whitfield), a Black woman born and raised in the South who becomes an F. B. I. Agent. There was a lot going on with that and a lot to consider. A Black woman, in the South, in the mid-70's or so. She was facing an uphill battle no matter what she chose to do, but like her husband said to her: "Are you driving the truck or are you being driven?"
She had a family in Albany, Georgia before being recruited by the FBI. Taking the FBI job would require pretty much abandoning her family for weeks in order to complete her training, then moving her family at the whim of the FBI, and further abandoning her family whenever she was on an undercover assignment. Understandably, her husband wasn't too keen on the whole idea.
Now, depending upon where you fall on the religious, social, and even political scale, you either saw Gibson as a champion or a failure. She was a champion for women in general and Black women in particular. But, it can also be said that she failed her family.
The movie was decent. We got to see Gibson's struggle with her decisions and some Miami Vice style FBI work. I have my opinion on the matter but I'll save it.
The movie is about Johnnie Mae Gibson (played by Lynn Whitfield), a Black woman born and raised in the South who becomes an F. B. I. Agent. There was a lot going on with that and a lot to consider. A Black woman, in the South, in the mid-70's or so. She was facing an uphill battle no matter what she chose to do, but like her husband said to her: "Are you driving the truck or are you being driven?"
She had a family in Albany, Georgia before being recruited by the FBI. Taking the FBI job would require pretty much abandoning her family for weeks in order to complete her training, then moving her family at the whim of the FBI, and further abandoning her family whenever she was on an undercover assignment. Understandably, her husband wasn't too keen on the whole idea.
Now, depending upon where you fall on the religious, social, and even political scale, you either saw Gibson as a champion or a failure. She was a champion for women in general and Black women in particular. But, it can also be said that she failed her family.
The movie was decent. We got to see Gibson's struggle with her decisions and some Miami Vice style FBI work. I have my opinion on the matter but I'll save it.