[ SECRET POST #3167 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #3167 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.


__________________________________________________



02.


__________________________________________________



03.


__________________________________________________



04.


__________________________________________________



05.


__________________________________________________



06.


__________________________________________________



07.


__________________________________________________



08.


__________________________________________________



09.


__________________________________________________



10.



__________________________________________________



11.


__________________________________________________



12.


__________________________________________________



13.









Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 040 secrets from Secret Submission Post #453.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Making a movie in 1950s Africa. And doing a glamour-of-old-Hollywood kind of thing with it.

(But also, that's a much better argument than "It's just a music video and therefore it's wrong to think about what it's depicting in any kind of critical way" so props on that)

[(Anonymous)]

But that isn't necessarily pro-colonialism. Making a movie in the middle of nowhere in Africa isn't a comment on what's going on in Africa, whatever the time period. It isn't a comment on the entire continent and what it's like. It's using a geographical setting for a part of its geography.

I don't think it's quite right to say that, if you want to film the scenery of a place, you also have to make sure to delve into all of the political and social issues that people who live nearby are dealing with. I also think context is important. If she was an actual white colonist doing actual white colonist things, I'd think there was more of a problem.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not saying it's an ardent defense of colonialism. And I'm not saying that you need to delve into every single political and social issue of the area. But I do think it is presenting an ideal of colonial African society that is not real. It is not just using a geographical setting as set dressing, it is using a specific interpretation of a real time and place and society as set dressing. And in presenting that set dressing, it's eliding a massive part of what was going on in that society. Specifically the fucked up oppressive parts of that society. So, again, it's inaccurate. And it promotes a harmful kind of nostalgia.

And you shouldn't do that.

[(Anonymous)]

NA ^This

[(Anonymous)]

I wasn't aware that Hollywood colonized Africa.

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt, but LOL!!