“Dear White People” was thoroughly enjoyable to me. I know some people very close to my heart who would take offense to it simply because in its effort to point out how white people stereotype black people, white people are stereotyped. I could point out that the movie satirizes just about every group it refers to, while at the same time ensuring that its individual characters are shown to have depth and identities of their own.
I think that director…
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Dear White People 2014
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Cloud Atlas 2012
From "Dinner for Schmucks" to "Dinner with Andre"...
Thanks Wachowskis!!!Cloud atlas, by far, contains one of my favorite messages ever put forth by a movie. The Wachowskis once again take a concept that Ive struggled to put to words, and put it on the screen in stark clarity without dumbing it down for the masses. To the contrary, they seem to have enough faith in the masses that they actually give us the full dose of their philosophy. Of…
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Moolaadé 2004
Moolaade, from what I could gather from the context of the film, is a protective rite. I assume it can be invoked by anyone with the courage and the will to impose it, and in the case of the film “Moolaade” this protection is invoked by a woman in order to shield 4 girls from genital mutilation as part of a purification rite. The woman (Colle) has a personality as strong and direct as Director Ousmane Sembene’s opinion on the…
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