| RATING: | 80% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
the only good white man is a dead one
Interesting look at endemic White violence and its use to sublimate human sexuality in providing an alternative outlet for the expression of feelings. The genocidal nature of the Indian Wars is laid bare as Whites express their belief in lebensraum.
The savages here are the Whites who have provoked many of the various Indian tribes in responsive atrocities of entire families. Civilization is here defined as the ability to control one’s emotions and, then, to find someone to hate in recompense for a life thus half-lived. This is an explicit critique of Freudian mumbo-jumbo regarding the necessity for self-control in White culture for civilization to take place.
The implication, then, of White male gynophobia and misogyny is that women induce men to forget self-control and are, thus, not civilized themselves and, so, not to be treated as such. The fear of women inherent in White culture is made clear here reflected in the sexual mutilations that take place as a form of twisted sexual self-expression.
What makes the movie more watchable than one would expect is the romantic-comedy aspect to the whole proceedings - despite the weak characterization - along with the education of Whites about the real (ie, White Supremacist) nature of their own culture. The Vietnam allegory (especially My Lai) is palpable and well-taken - as it was in Little Big Man. Projecting-and-displacing ones evil onto others is the classic self-fulfilling prophecy that attempts to both justify while also explaining the historic White criminality on show here and the hypocrisy of any White claim to civilization and superiority.
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