"Something the Lord Made is the story of two men who defy the rules of the Jim Crow South and start a medical revolution. Their patients are known as "blue babies" – infants suffering from a congenital heart defect that causes them to turn blue as they slowly suffocate. Alfred Blalock (Rickman) and Vivien Thomas (Mos Def) make a brilliant team, but as they race against time to save one particular baby, social pressure threatens to tear them apart. Blalock is the white, wealthy head of surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Thomas is black and poor, a lab technician whose dream of going to college and becoming a doctor was ruined by the Great Depression even though he possessed the intuition and dexterity of a great surgeon".
This film depicts status and the discrimination against a black man who was a great surgeon. He could not afford to go to medical school but was mentored by a white Doctor and together they began the very first heart surgeries. Vivien Thomas was not recognized as a Dr. until many many years later. Although it depicts discrimination it also ends with a happy ending as he is finally recognized for his great efforts. Definitely a movie I would recommend.
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