“Who killed Vincent Chin” and “Black Girl” are the movies viewed pertaining intensely to women and women's issues. La Noire De as well. Black Girl I think stood out most prominently for me.
French decolonization following World War II has always seemed to me the most interesting of all the stories of decolonization of the European powers following the second great war. France parted painfully with its colonies. Vietnam, Algiers, Senegal. This list goes on and on. The Battle for Algiers perhaps being the iconic film about this, as well as the iconic film on insurgent terrorism, at least in the mid 20th century.
Black Girl takes a slightly different tact, delivering a message on colonialism through looking at the impact of it on something as simple as day to day life and domestic tasks. Black girl addresses sex, but it also addresses race. I think the film is extremely haunting and made a large impression on me. Perhaps the greatest point it made to me is showing that there exist a number of cliches and stereotypes and cliches around sex discrimination. The french wife and mother in this film is a far greater oppressor, or at least far, far more avert, than any male oppressor. The husband does not seem as brutal, but is blindly aloof to the hostility and environment within his own home. Still, Black Girl makes sure to paint the correct picture that sex discrimination is not as simple as male on female.
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