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15821, RE: Even with her showing him "truth"
Posted by L_O_Quent, Mon Apr-01-02 11:30 AM
>I still see her character as
>a means to his actualization...his
>humanization. Sorry, but she
>was not the heroic figure
>in the end...he was.
>She was the one who
>needed him for shelter...and to
>"make her feel good."
> Insofar as loss, of
>course I've suffered loss, and
>I find that grief doesn't
>always manifest itself in one,
>predictable way, which is the
>way that Halle used to
>manifest her "grief." It
>was the easiest route for
>her to take...I'm not impressed
>by that...sorry.
>
>And for the crabs in a
>barrel bullshit, I cried right
>along with the entire audience
>when Halle got that awards...I
>am happy for her as
>an individual, but I can't
>refrain from calling like I
>see it in the big
>picture. I can clearly
>see how awarding that role,
>in a context where NO
>OTHER Black female gets awarded
>for shit (on the other
>hand, White women get awarded
>for playing queens and harlots,
>druggies and cancer victims, etc.),
>fit perfectly into the racist
>paradigm Hollywood has functioned so
>well with maintaining...I see how
>the movie functioned as many
>movies do, as a way
>of perpetuating myths and stereotypes
>that I see as detrimental
>to us as a group.
>
>
>I guess that's just me.


bullshit? if you don't like you don't like it but I didn't feel that the movie was disrespectful toward anyone.