| RATING: | 80% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
[Heading South]
Cheap holidays in other people’s misery
A film about feminine longing and especially middle-aged White women slumming-it in a Third World paradise - on the lookout for good-looking and sexually-fit Black teenagers. Female sexual-jealousy and loneliness mix with the politics of sex tourism, social class and economic power.
This tale of a Sanky-panky and his adoring female fans is reminiscent of Smile Orange, this movie looks at the gilded cage Western Whites choose to live in and their fundamental unwillingness to accept the effect of their White supremacism on others - especially the world's poor. Here, Blacks are sexual objects to solace Whites for mundane jobs and unsatisfying marriages: A modern-day White (sexual) imperialism that reflects both the lack of sexual fulfillment of the antagonists and the emptiness of a physical-appearance obsessed Western culture where woman past their sexual prime are no longer considered attractive. Yet these women are not looking for genuine relationships, they seek mirrors for their narcissistic preening and solipsistic longing for contentment-without-effort; redemption-without-contrition.
On a wider perspective, these women do not really understand the politics of the paradise lost they surreptitiously invade - nor even that they are engaged in a cultural and economic invasion. Nor that the culture they exploit is as corrupt as their own - in its own way.
The only failing of this film is that it is not as good an analysis of the political situation it presents as it is of the emotional one.
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