The Good, the Bad and the Invisible As has been widely noted, this awards season -- more than most -- includes several films that deal with black-white relations or put black characters at their center. There's "Lincoln," "Django Unchained," "Flight" and "Beasts of the Southern Wild," for starters. "But the black characters' humanity is hit or miss," the Bagger's colleague Nelson George argues. These films raise the age-old question of whether white filmmakers are ready to grant black characters agency in their own screen lives.