Over the weekend, exhausted from work, I decided to go to my old addiction - to watch a movie in the theater. As I was tired, I decided to go to a movie with less crowd, so I skipped Indian flicks {No No, I didn't miss Raees - I saw it last week :) as well as I skipped 'Lion' (said to be 6 academy award nominations). I walked in to see "Get Out".
It is more of a conceptual movie arguing that slavery never died from human history, and we continue to find new and veiled ways of slavery. Unfortunately, this movie is released at a time in the United States when the political environment is very toxic and polarized. (Or is it a deliberate move?).
Made behind the bias, discrimination, and prejudice of color, the movie portrays the insecurity of humans at both ends of the spectrum. Though written as Whites n Blacks conflict in present-day western societies, it tells us that it is very hard for any dominant majority to let go their dominance, and human minds continue to find unique ways to perpetuate mastery and to pass it to next generations.
From every time-period to every society in human history - the plague of racism, discrimination, and slavery is a constant menace. I enjoyed the movie.
See trailer (here) as well as NY Times 'Anatomy of Scene' (here) for this movie - you will get an idea
Links:
1. https://youtu.be/sRfnevzM9kQ
2. https://www.nytimes.com/video/movies/100000004951014/anatomy-of-a-scene-get-out.html
It is more of a conceptual movie arguing that slavery never died from human history, and we continue to find new and veiled ways of slavery. Unfortunately, this movie is released at a time in the United States when the political environment is very toxic and polarized. (Or is it a deliberate move?).
Made behind the bias, discrimination, and prejudice of color, the movie portrays the insecurity of humans at both ends of the spectrum. Though written as Whites n Blacks conflict in present-day western societies, it tells us that it is very hard for any dominant majority to let go their dominance, and human minds continue to find unique ways to perpetuate mastery and to pass it to next generations.
From every time-period to every society in human history - the plague of racism, discrimination, and slavery is a constant menace. I enjoyed the movie.
See trailer (here) as well as NY Times 'Anatomy of Scene' (here) for this movie - you will get an idea
Links:
1. https://youtu.be/sRfnevzM9kQ
2. https://www.nytimes.com/video/movies/100000004951014/anatomy-of-a-scene-get-out.html
3 comments:
From every time-period to every society in human history - the plague of racism, discrimination, and slavery is a constant menace.
Very true and I think it is intentionally introduced
The way I see the media being downtraded and mocked at and prevented from access etc. it all adds up to complete dictatorship and the people chosen to run the country are encouraging threat to Jews and Muslims alike. Previously only poor sikh brothers were made shaheed and now even hindoo brothers joining in (some youngman shot by an extremist "get out of my country" the shooter said just because he was brown color
One of my nephews wrote for a different reason but fits us
بس ایک ہی الّو کافی تھا برباد گلستاں کرنے کو
ہر شاخ پہ الّو بیٹھا ہے انجام گلستاں کیا ہوگا
Uncle: aaj kal to har newspaper paRh ke lagta hai
ہر شاخ پہ الّو بیٹھا ہے انجام گلستاں کیا ہوگا
Really good film. I am thinking about it even after hours.
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