- 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
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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