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KvP:
ITT: India as a billion-strong magical negro hivemind
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: KvP on 01 Feb 2011, 20:33 ---But they save some brown kids so in a way, isn't the entire concept of India as a cleansing bath washing away their white, white problems not problematic at all?
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that scene actually just affirms that they are like total strangers? what they eventually discover is that they have fundamental human emotion in common with the indian people but very little else, and they are completely out of sorts with these people. after that scene, where they have extraordinary trouble even communicating with anyone, they go home. do you not think that is significant
KvP:
"people"
KvP:
I mean what sets Anderson apart from his indie-quirk descendants is his ability to instill real pathos in his central characters but I think in TDL specifically the characters at the periphery suffer just as much as they would in, say, Good Dick or Eagle Vs. Shark. Which is to say, the affect is so heavy that robbed of the focus of the film they become ciphers, and when they don't speak the language of the main characters that effect is compounded. That sort of thing might actually be used well to explore culture shock and the like, but in the end I don't feel like TDL was about anything more than exactly what Anderson gets accused of fixating on - the family issues of disaffected white pseudo-intellectuals. I was sufficiently charmed by The Royal Tenenbaums but it wore very thin in his next two films.
Dliessmgg:
--- Quote from: JD on 01 Feb 2011, 18:08 ---
--- Quote from: Dliessmgg on 01 Feb 2011, 16:43 ---
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Is it the beard you have a crush on or the man?
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His voice. I want to have sex with his voice.
And the beard too.
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