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He's definitely a red herring. You think he's going to save the day, but then he dies quickly.

I don't think the movie is racist just because the sole black character died. The characters in the movie -- at least the ones who aren't limited to one scene -- could be counted on one hand.

He did have another guy he talked to who was black, and maybe they could have increased that guy's screen time, but what would have been the point? Oh, now the movie isn't racist because the black guy on the other end of the radio gets TWO scenes and lives.


When a movie has several white characters, and one black character, there's room to complain about the sole black character getting killed. When it's just a couple of parents, their son, and one other guy, it's kind of unfair to say that you have to invent a fifth character just to have a survivor who is black.