On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 8:10 PM, Dan S. Wang wrote:
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> Hi Brian,
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> Thank you for an inspired meditation on the film Get Out. I watched it a
> few days ago. [spoilers to follow, sorry]
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> The film is totally about race, but so is America, or for that matter,
> Europe.
That's a fantastic response, Keith. Actually I agree with you about
culture: be against it! That's my understanding of counter-culture:
accent on the counter, not on the culture. Your words on two-way
relations are moving. What else to do with one's life? Of course I am
more pessimisstic
Hi Brian,
Afro-pessimism has had its vogue in Africa too, especially in the decades
around the millennium. Its protagonists are still around, but less blatant
than before, not least in France. Stephen Smith won the Prix essai 2004
France Televisions for Negrologie: pourquoi l'Afrique meurt (why
"You know when you’re going to sleep and it feels like you’re about to
fall, so you wake up? What if you never woke up? Where would you fall?"
With these questions, director Jordan Peele asks *you* to explain the
real horror of his box-office sensation, "Get Out."
The film is totally about