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pwhodges:
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michaelicious:
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I said vaguely racist. Mostly this impression is based on The Darjeeling Limited, a film I have only seen brief parts of because it was really bad. I will admit to not having fully perused the entire ouevre because I find every one of his films I've tried to watch frankly embarrassing as cultural artefacts. I have seen bits of most of his films though; I once shared a house with several film students, one of whom was obsessed with like, Anderson and Michel Gondry.
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I justify it to myself by saying that the Darjeeling Limited is an exploration of the sort of arrogance and Orientalism that often leads people to travel to India on 'spiritual journeys'. The tourist industry and neo-colonialism are pretty intimately linked. There is idealisation, and perhaps homogenisation, of the culture but I think that gives the viewer a better understanding of how the characters are maybe seeing things. I don't think Indian people are necessarily denigrated by the film.
I guess you could say it is racist because the film is organised around white consciousness. It is a movie about India without any really developed Indian characters. India and its people are sort of reduced to the ground for these privileged grown up children to work out their 'daddy issues'.
I contradicted myself a bit, but I am okay with that.. I was mostly just trying to work it out in my head rather than present an argument.
Inlander:
Yeah except it's not a film about India. It's a film about white people travelling through India. There's all the difference in the world.
michaelicious:
Yeah that is where my second train of thought sort of breaks down.
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