Humanist Ethics in John Sayles's Casa de los Babys

Writer/director/editor and novelist John Sayles has often been described as a humanist, and his works as humanistic dramas. Although there is still very little in the way of scholarly deconstruction of the term, there are a couple of attributes Sayles scholars continue to refer to. Bruce MacMillan pointed out in an oral presentation that 'Sayles is one of the few authors and artists to explore not only the familiar sentiment, "The personal is the political," but also its reversal by translating abstract political concepts into situations that average people face daily' (MacMillan 1991, cited in Norden 2006: 113).