- Also Known As:
- Unknown
- Year:
- 2009
- Country:
- Predominant Genre:
- Adventure
- Director:
- Outstanding Performances:
- Premiss:
- Frustrated writer struggles to keep his family alive when a series of global catastrophes threatens to annihilate mankind.
- Themes:
- Alienation | Compassion | Courage | Destiny | Emotional repression | Empathy | Family | Friendship | Humanity | Loyalty | Materialism | Narcissism | Personal change | Self-belief | Self-expression | Sexism | Snobbery | Solipsism | Stereotyping | White culture | White supremacy
- Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
- Review Format:
- DVD
Out of Africa and Back
Highly entertaining movie imbued with the idea that White civilization & culture is a sham, behind which Whites hide greed, meretriciousness and death-worship. Yet the writers still expound-on the belief that human nature is essentially good and that their melodramatic plot also reveals the goodness in Man.
Yet, few of the White characters here actually reflect this and we are left with the realization that - when all is said and done - it comes down to the paradox of dog-eat-dog and every-man-for-himself to save civilization; while simultaneously realizing that such a saved entity is not really civilized in its intent and not much in its forms. One thing is for sure, few Blacks are allowed on to rescue ships built by Whites.
The inability to dramatically-explore the space between reality and the White political fantasy that Whites are fully-human while remaining emotional children (snobbish; self-regarding; whining; etc) reveals the White writers as in conflict with their own material and what it says about them and their culture & civilization: That it is designed to be quintessentially unfair, unjust and homogeneous precisely to cushion those on the inside from the worst effects of the very social policies initiated for the benefit of insiders - as well as to protect insiders from the righteous wrath of those permanently-excluded, on the outside.
It is difficult for Whites to be open and honest about whom they really are - as so many of the politicians here want to keep the end of the world a secret until the last possible moment; thereby averting the very global panic that will destroy them and their kind from the realization that it is they - and not the rich who can afford to pay 1,000,000,000 Euros to survive - who are as doomed emotionally as the poor and uneducated are doomed physically.
