Gawd. The trailer is all: Black people die! White people - ONE OF THEM A WOMAN - are dismayed!
It's so depressing and ignorant that there can't even be a movie about genocide in an African country without it being framed in the context of "look at the white woman crying at how sad this all is".
but it's the brutal reality of the self-obsessed way we are now. From climate change to Doctor Who, nothing affects us unless it's in some way tied in or connected to us personally.
and it's not necessarily a race thing. Look at the huge indifference the West generally had towards the Yugoslavia shambles.
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Date: 2009-11-03 05:08 pm (UTC)It's so depressing and ignorant that there can't even be a movie about genocide in an African country without it being framed in the context of "look at the white woman crying at how sad this all is".
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Date: 2009-11-03 05:09 pm (UTC)and it's not necessarily a race thing. Look at the huge indifference the West generally had towards the Yugoslavia shambles.
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Date: 2009-11-03 05:14 pm (UTC)