![]() ![]() For like Eliza Doolittle, Onion can only realize a sense of self without the overbearing male presence in “her” life. The element was pervasive last week when Onion was under Brown’s alleged care, and it’s even more apparent this week when he is absent from it. Like those earlier plays, here is a story where privileged white men, even well-intentioned Old John Brown, think it their right to remake Onion into the type of lady they see fit, all too blind by even their rosy colored racism to ask “her” opinion, or realize that she’s actually a boy. And it’s given a distinctly American flavor in the first few hours of Ethan Hawke’s Good Lord Bird. It’s a tale of possessive manipulation and outright obliviousness. ![]() In those texts, two confirmed old bachelors in Edwardian England think it is their privilege, if not duty, to remake a poor flower girl into their perfect image. The Good Lord Bird Episode 2ĭuring several moments of tonight’s The Good Lord Bird, my mind was whisked back to thoughts of My Fair Lady-or at least George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. This The Good Lord Bird review contains spoilers. ![]()
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