It's not the representation of the central character that is the issue, but rather Fanning's struggle to make her Lilly a rounded, believable character. But with anything this fragile, it doesn't take much for it to break.
It's a delicate film about immigrant communities and the struggle to overcome past traumas, told with feeling and compassion. The helmer is more concerned with recounting the history of Ethiopia at the time of the removal of Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, in 1974, than he is with telling an immigrant story from a white perspective. Strangely enough, the film highlights how the world favours whites. Sometimes it pays to wait to see a project before casting a damning judgement. It's a good fight, but it's also one that Sweetness in the Belly wants to support, too. The internet felt it was wrong for lead actress Dakota Fanning to play an Ethiopian refugee, given the historic failure of movies to tell African stories from a black perspective. The book adaptation faced accusations of whitewashing after a clip surfaced on the internet, and people jumped to the wrong conclusions.
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