This deserves criticism for being another film about racism told through a white person. But it also deserves a lot of praise for forcing white Americans in 1989 to see apartheid. And not in a palatable way, but in a violent, confrontational way. A way that shows white supremacy as a governing goal of the state, one to be achieved by any means necessary.
Not that white Americans hadn’t seen it before, but as Susan Sarandon reminds Sutherland in the film, at least their children won’t believe the lies.
This deserves criticism for being another film about racism told through a white person. But it also deserves a lot of praise for forcing white Americans in 1989 to see apartheid. And not in a palatable way, but in a violent, confrontational way. A way that shows white supremacy as a governing goal of the state, one to be achieved by any means necessary.
Not that white Americans hadn’t seen it before, but as Susan Sarandon reminds Sutherland in the film, at least their children won’t believe the lies.
