Typical Hollywood, taking a film set in Japan and casting white people as the leads. DO NOT WANT
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Eve_of_Destruction — 9 years ago(July 26, 2016 03:22 AM)
Mental illness or not suicide is ultimately a choice. My cousin and 2 close friends committed suicide. So I have been there through the repurcussuins on the parents and sisters and brothers. I myself have contemplated it but I know what I would leave behind would be worse than what I went through to put me in that position. I would never do that to my family.
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Eve_of_Destruction — 9 years ago(July 28, 2016 04:20 AM)
Mental illness or not suicide is ultimately a choice. My cousin and 2 close friends committed suicide. So I have been there through the repurcussuins on the parents and sisters and brothers. I myself have contemplated it but I know what I would leave behind would be worse than what I went through to put me in that position. I would never do that to my family.
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bcjester — 10 years ago(December 26, 2015 10:37 PM)
Yes because visiting Japan is absolutely illogical and silly. You're right my bad. Being a Caucasian person who works in Japan(you need a work visa for that by the way) is u heard of. Man I'm sorry you're right. I don't know where I came up with these half-brained schemes of mine.
Next time I need to renew my passport I just won't because it's silly and illogical for me to visit another country.
God dude,thank you so much for opening my eyes!
Sarcasm aside it's more likely she's just visiting than having a work visa or simply living there. Nothing silly about that. People vacation overseas in different countries all the time. -
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bcjester — 10 years ago(January 09, 2016 03:08 PM)
After seeing the film I will give you a proper response and then a jokey one cause, why not.
Proper response.
As stated earlier she could have been there on a work visa. She was: she was the english teacher at a school. She did not go to Japan to kill herself. She went to start a job as an English(Language) teacher in Japan. Just so happened she was thinking about committing suicide and went into the forest(I wont spoil it and explain why)
Jokey response.
why do white people jump out of an air plane with a parachute.
Why do white people dive into a cave in the same way
Why do white people slide down the side of a mountain with two glossed plank. strapped to each foot respectively.
Why do white people do the same as above but with one glosse plank(snowboard)
No question marks as they are all rhetorical questions.Lol and horrible stereotypes as all nationalities do these crazy things. -
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lupitag-11852 — 10 years ago(January 07, 2016 03:12 PM)
You act like it's just Hollywood that's guilty of not being diverse. I can't even recall a European film that starred a non-white person, and I've seen many. Is European cinema also racist? And when was the last time you watched an Asian movie with a white lead? Yeah, but let's all just harp on Hollywood for it. Hollywood is, in fact, MORE diverse than any other cinematic region, as we have entire movies with blacks casts and insert races other than whites in other roles, even if they aren't starring in them. So shouldn't you be saying European and Asian films need to be catching up to the U.S.? Oh no, because Hollywood has to be the scapegoat.
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Ultraviolenxe — 10 years ago(January 07, 2016 05:07 PM)
First of all, Japanese films only casting Asians in not the same as what Hollywood does. Whire people are the minority in terms of the world, but make up the majority when it comes to representation in the media and in films. So no there's no issue with Japanese studios not casting white people, as white people are already highly represented in film.
European cinema also lacks diversity because, newsflash, there's racism in Europe as well. But Hollywood makes most of the movies that we see in theaters so that's why I'm talking about Hollywood. I think it's kind of ridiculous that this movie is based on Japan, Japanese spirits, Japanese culture, but the cast is white. To me that's just silly. There's plenty of Asian actors they could have hired but instead they cast white people because it's more marketable, and yes that is indeed whitewashing, which is racist. -
Archnenna — 10 years ago(January 07, 2016 06:05 PM)
You know what? Racism goes both ways. You can't blame one group of people and say the other one is fine for doing the same thing, only with a different race. I for one don't think it's racist. Racism is when you hate another race. I don't see any hate here. Seriously, everything is considered racism these days.
Also, it's their movie. They can cast who they want.