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From: jsq@im4u.UUCP (John Quarterman)
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Subject: Re: Two films on the !Kung
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Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 19:08:51 EDT
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As I pointed out to Prentiss earlier today, the same criticisms
apply to The Emerald Forest and Gone with the Wind.  I liked
the former and detest the latter.  The Gods I saw mostly as
a satire of white pretensions, put together in a mild enough
manner that it could be shown in South Africa.  But, then,
I *like* slapstick.  It is equally easy to read the intrepretation
of propaganda for the apartheid regime into it.  It mostly seems
to depend on whether you think The Gods could be taken seriously
as a document of real black or white lifestyles or relations,
which kind of depends on whether you already knew much about
the situations in the region.  What do others think?

I'm going to go see N!ai, myself, if it ever shows here.
-- 
John Quarterman,   UUCP:  {ihnp4,seismo,harvard,gatech}!ut-sally!jsq
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