What was it about?

I was originally going to post about something else but this really struck me. So, whenever Professor Parham asks “so, what was this about” I am always pretty stumped. Maybe it’s because i’m in a racial passing class, but when I think about Pinky I think about the racial dynamic in the film. I don’t even think it is too rash to say most people would see racial conflict to be a big theme in the movie. Well, I was looking up pinky online to try to read what others thought about the movie and I decided to start with wikipedia because I like Wikipedia. Anyway, here was the plot summary:Pinky (1949) is a film which tells the story of a young lightskinned African American woman passing as white, who becomes torn between the needs of her grandmother and the love of a white doctor. Was the white doctor that big in the movie? Did I miss something? Granted, in every day life I might be thinking about things besides race when I watch this movie…but I still think it is a bigger part of the movie than tom (annnd we even had trouble remembering his name)