I have not read the story or seen either films, but from your review--if the whole scenario has to be rigged for the white guy to win, isn't that saying something? Knowing it, is he then complicit in relying on this privileged position? The fact that he wins is in some ways a projection of our fears about losing. There would have been a time in the past when his dying would have been seen as more heroic, no? Not quite parallel,, but in a similar vein, in The English Patient (I admittedly hate the film) love justifies the betrayal of an entire city. In Casablanca, there are things more important than love.
I'm glad I don't watch movies anymore. I'm sure there are good ones, but I don't have the patience to dig through the slop anymore.
"I know how it is to have to go along with a whole lot of people you don't even know/simply because there happens to be a whole lot more of them."
Early Sly is the best Sly- that brutally honest song comes from that time.
I'm going to find the original with Ahhnold and watch that instead. I know I saw it when it came out, but I don't really remember much of it.
I have not read the story or seen either films, but from your review--if the whole scenario has to be rigged for the white guy to win, isn't that saying something? Knowing it, is he then complicit in relying on this privileged position? The fact that he wins is in some ways a projection of our fears about losing. There would have been a time in the past when his dying would have been seen as more heroic, no? Not quite parallel,, but in a similar vein, in The English Patient (I admittedly hate the film) love justifies the betrayal of an entire city. In Casablanca, there are things more important than love.