Something the Lord Made is a great movie. It's theme is: The intrinsic value of doing work you love is more fundamental than any reward you can gain from the world for doing it.
The movie is based on the true story of the two men who pioneered heart surgery. The partners, one a relatively uneducated black man and the other a respected doctor, are both great men, and the central conflict is one of good versus good - an essential element in any good movie. (Even the better superhero movies present an internal clash within the hero which ties in to his struggles against evil.)
Without giving away too much, I can say that this movie portrayed independence as the antidote to racism. Watching it during this historic time when our great nation has elected a black man as President gave the story extra meaning.
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