Misinterpretations of the film
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aquarianbrass — 19 years ago(October 06, 2006 08:02 PM)
Excatly,
People expect blacks to thrive after being set free first from slavery and then from legal segregation. Both situations left blacks without the necessary
resources to compete in the outside society but everyone somehow expects them to be alright. 'Everyone is equal now so we can play this game fair and square." Easy enought for one to say that when you acquired all the best cards while you were holding my hands behind my back.
Its like making me play the first half without half my team, and then expecting me to catch up in the second half even though I'm still a man or two down. BS. -
tricky_jgc — 19 years ago(November 27, 2006 03:51 PM)
I agree on so many levels on most of what's been written on this board.
I also found a tough speech on american death penalty (How emotional is that scene, and how representative is when Grace says: "killing won't bring Claire back"?)
Now, is the film recist? I don't personally think so, actually I find it to be quite the opposite (you know african american people not ready to face their so called freedom in a society where there was everything but), yet I feel like in times of the extreme political correctness, might be misinterpreted big time.
I mean, just 9 out of the twelve slave roles had to be portrayed by brits due to the african-american actors refusal to play them. -
logan-burns — 19 years ago(December 08, 2006 03:46 PM)
"i find it incredibly shameful" that you feel the need to 'educate' viewers with all the obvious information your presented..and its BS that you need to "be well versed in black history" to watch this film. are you kidding, you simply need to have been brought into this world to get anything from this, you don't need to be versed in history, but in experience.as for "mis- interpretations" are you kidding?
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johnslegers — 16 years ago(August 27, 2009 04:12 PM)
Actually, I would say the topic is broader than just post-Civil War USA. In my opinion, this film just wants to show us that most people just long for a lifestyle they're used to. a lifestyle that comes natural to them because they don't know any other way. It shows us how naive liberals try to correct this, yet make mistake after mistake and in the end turn out to be even more arrogant and prejudiced than those they hate. Both Dogville and Manderlay carry a similar theme.
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Eli_Zardo — 16 years ago(September 01, 2009 05:35 PM)
"40 acres and a mule." This was a measure given to blacks, by General Sherman, entitling them to land and the opportunity to cultivate it themselves.
The problem here,
of course
, is that General Sherman had no authority to set such a policy in the first place.
I'm not saying it isn't representative of injustices or short-sightedness or that it should have been revoked but rather what "40 acres and a mule" is misunderstood as.
Not least of which would be the fact the mule part is a complete fabrication, it was simply a
limited
land redistribution plan. -
roamingbrit — 16 years ago(October 21, 2009 02:45 AM)
This an excellent thread and I am thankful for the views people have put forward. After just watching the film myself the comments on here have helped me to more fully develop my own views and make a few things clearer to me.
This a great film I think, the style of filming, similar to that of Dogville, as well as the subject matter of course, makes the viewer focus on the dialogue more than they might otherwise.
The take on slavery in America and indeed American foreign policy are all very thought provoking, and to me that is the sign of a half decent film if it makes you think critically about something, if this film achieves anything than it is that. -
chilicheeze — 16 years ago(April 01, 2010 11:01 PM)
Yeah - but Dogville was a one time (excellent) experiment I loved it - but this was too much of a 'foreigner' butting his unwanted nose in.
http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=42385905