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I feel like the problem with this movie isn't "cultural appropriation" so much the fact that Japanese people are literally portrayed as less human than dogs. The fact that critiques are being framed in terms of cultural appropriation to me just highlights how incredibly powerful and deeply rooted racism towards East Asian people and societies is in the Anglo consciousness, that people are apparently unwilling to just call something as blatant as this racist and instead are diving deep into postmodern academic jargon for some sort of excuse/way out of acknowledging explicitly that portraying Asian people as subhuman is categorically wrong and unacceptable. Maybe I'm just a thin-skinned weaboo lib though? 
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:How the gently caress did you take away from this movie, "Anderson thinks Japanese people are less human than dogs?" Be more specific You don’t think having the Japanese people speaking unsubtitled Japanese compared to the dogs who are the protagonists and voiced by a bunch of your favorite actors is dehumanizing? It’s flipping the normal scenario upside down, where human characters speak understandable English and animals speak unintelligible gibberish language. It’s using the Japanese people as a mute aesthetic prop, symbolically reversing their status vis-a-vis animals, and hammering into the audience’s brain that they are an alien Other who needs a white savior character to come and identify the sinister conspiracy and dysfunction at the heart of their society icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 01:33 on Mar 30, 2018 |
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Mar 30, 2018 01:17
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And by the way, the whole "likes Asian aesthetics/cultural artifacts; dislikes live Asian human beings" complex is also a super deeply rooted and important part of racism towards Asians. The fact that this movie is there for the aesthetics and considers the actual human beings who live there as uninteresting at best, comical and inferior at worst, is the problem
icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 01:55 on Mar 30, 2018 |
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Mar 30, 2018 01:21
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Symetrique posted:Have you seen the movie? Or are you basing all of this on the trailer/reviews? Yeah, I saw it last night. IMO the trailer and reviews are accurate though
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Mar 30, 2018 01:54
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