CSA: Confederate States of America

Rating: 80%



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Also Known As/Subtitle:

Unknown

Year:

2004

Country:

Predominant Genre:

Comedy

Director:

Outstanding Performances:

None

Premiss:

A satirically-humorous look at an America where the South won the Civil War.

Themes:

Alienation

Christianity

Compassion

Courage

Destiny

Empathy

Identity

Loneliness

Loyalty

Narcissism

Political Correctness

Self-belief

Self-expression

Solipsism

Stereotyping

White culture

White guilt

White supremacy

Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:

Bamboozled

Review Format:

DVD

Without Blacks, Whites Don’t Know Who They Are

Clever movie that makes clear the White need of someone to feel superior toward before they can have any idea - albeit false - of whom they are or might be. Blacks are the emotional crutches of Whites - a dependency borne of the fear of growing up and standing on one’s own feet - and the fear that Blacks will no longer provide Whites with an identity Whites have not worked for.

The movie understands that White loyalty to the concept of White supremacy is the only loyalty that offers Whites the sense of belonging they crave while, simultaneously, only offering the illusion of economic superiority. Once machines are invented, there is much less need of slaves and inferiors (yet the habits of the illusion of Race are inbred in Whites); meaning White culture can never advance much economically because it refuses to face the economic advantages of equality by openly-admitting Whites were wrong to take the get-rich-quick shortcut of White supremacy. Such a humiliating admission would be the final nail in the coffin of the lie of White supremacy.

There can be no economic advantage in trying to make Blacks economically-dependent, since Blacks would then produce little and buy even less; making Whites poorer through having fewer paying customers. Yet, Whites favor this scorched-earth policy of destroying their own culture rather than sharing the world equally with Blacks. Whites conflate politics and economics with ideology, such that political correctness trumps economic common-sense and prosperity.

However, the film fails to offer any explanation as to why Whites decided to create a culture that deprives them of the possibility of personal happieness, where loyalty to an idea outshines all other loyalties - even personal ones.

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