While I haven't seen this movie, I already know it's spot on.....I grew up in New Orleans. NOLA is a blue city surrounded by a sea of red. But it's still very much the Deep South. Class and social status is still a thing. Moving to Chicago was a huge culture shock for me. There was a lot that I had to...unlearn, for lack of better words.
It’s wild how baked in structural racism is. It’s in everything, and requires no overt cruelty or intent to harm to be perpetuated or handed down. Casual.
Yet inside this is the societal misunderstanding that white people are raised with, that racism requires ill intent or acts of intentional cruelty.
It’s really wild to step back and look at things with this sort of lens. I really appreciate writing like this, because it’s just so necessary.
This movie is extremely EXTREMELY weird. I remember seeing it years ago and thinking ‘’man what a WEIRD ASS MOVIE.” I guess for some of the reasons you mention...it is always absurd to see the whole confederate nostalgia thing painted as cute even if it doesn’t *necessarily* mean every one of those people is hankering to go back to the slave days. I suppose I hope that’s true, sort of. It’s still weird as hell. But a useful cultural product to display certain things that explain certain other things so thanks for this review!
While I haven't seen this movie, I already know it's spot on.....I grew up in New Orleans. NOLA is a blue city surrounded by a sea of red. But it's still very much the Deep South. Class and social status is still a thing. Moving to Chicago was a huge culture shock for me. There was a lot that I had to...unlearn, for lack of better words.
It’s wild how baked in structural racism is. It’s in everything, and requires no overt cruelty or intent to harm to be perpetuated or handed down. Casual.
Yet inside this is the societal misunderstanding that white people are raised with, that racism requires ill intent or acts of intentional cruelty.
It’s really wild to step back and look at things with this sort of lens. I really appreciate writing like this, because it’s just so necessary.
This movie is extremely EXTREMELY weird. I remember seeing it years ago and thinking ‘’man what a WEIRD ASS MOVIE.” I guess for some of the reasons you mention...it is always absurd to see the whole confederate nostalgia thing painted as cute even if it doesn’t *necessarily* mean every one of those people is hankering to go back to the slave days. I suppose I hope that’s true, sort of. It’s still weird as hell. But a useful cultural product to display certain things that explain certain other things so thanks for this review!
Can’t be an accident that the lead character is named “Melanie.” That’s a GWTW callback for sure.