| RATING: | 80% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Interesting look at the many ethical and political problems of White culture seen from the point-of-view of a pre-pubescent, nine-year-old White schoolboy. Blacks are presented as emotionally spontaneous and culturally cool. His character allows us to take a journey through the stereotypical Black culture that used to appear in Blaxploitation movies that Whites still take to be representative of that culture. Here lies the political satire of Whites that makes this movie as funny as it is.
The worst aspects of White (‘snowflake’) culture are foregrounded: Non-nurturing parenting, political corruption and power madness, poor schooling from a sub-standard education system, sexual repression and resulting hypocrisy and sex obsession, violent toys, alcohol dependency, child molestation, suburban boredom & the general emptiness of the culture. That Whites regularly appropriate aspects of Black culture for themselves perpetuates the usual envy and antipathy between the two cultures and the attempt by Whites to fill the void of a culture without much ethical common sense.
A clever parody of Lil’ Abner with the kind of political content absent from the traditional White view of race relations.
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