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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman
It just seemed to me that you were implying a familiarity with racism was important to creating a film about racism, and one of the reasons you disliked the movie is that you believed the filmmakers misunderstood the nature of racism in having their 12 characters display it so obviously.
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You're telling me that I haven't truly experienced racism because I'm Hawaiian. Okay, with that logic... the director and writer of this film are white.
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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman
If I read you right, you weren't buying it because it didn't seem "real" to you. Well, it seems real to plenty of people living in L.A.
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I find that to be a cop out. I've lived in LA for 8 years. I've seen it.
The portrayals were not realistic. If an LA cop fingerbanged someone while frisking them, they would lose their job (not to mention that every formal complaint of an LA officer goes in their file). If a CSI investigator (or whatever she was) spouted overtly racists remarks to someone, she would lose her job. If a DA's wife was deemed as a racist (and witnessed as one by several people in her house), the press would have a field day bringing that DA down. That's how it works now and these people in their jobs know that. They would not say these things outloud to their target for fear of repercussions.
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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman
Certainly a story involving near-impossible coincidences in plot as its structure can be allowed the coincidence of involving overtly racist characters to be involved in that plot.
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Not if your point is to mirror every day life. I'm not saying all racists are covert. But what are the odds that all 12 of these people are?
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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman
Try being black or Korean in L.A. and then tell me how covert the racism is in this town.
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So the filmmakers need not be experienced in being on the receiving end of racism in order to be credible, but I do?
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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman
(Maybe we can strike a bin Ladan truce over our mutual love for Brokeback Mountain.)
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Yeah, but you were bi-sexual and now you're not. What do I care about your opinion on two rumpus rangers who were born gay.
(Okay, that last one was a joke.)
