Comments on: Django Unchained As Post-Race Product

By: Ivan Catlett

Ivan Catlett — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:26:49 +0000

As a black man I enjoy Tarantino’s movies, Pulp Fiction, Django. I feel they are empowering to me in a sense.

By: Merrian

Merrian — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:44:28 +0000

I think this is right on. The most important point to me is “if it was set on modern day would scare movie goers”. Pick any contemporary injustice and put multiple murders at the solution end of it and the commentary would be wildly different. Thanks for posting.

By: Ron Becker

Ron Becker — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:26:18 +0000

Great comments. The most intriguing for me is the point it raises at the end of part 1 about the constraints placed on cultural narratives (and perhaps by extension political change/action) by the perceived or maybe practical (or maybe real?) need (or is it merely the desire?) for identification. It seems that the dynamics of media fragmentation only exacerbate our need/desire to identify with someone or something in order to care about it; and they also are likely making it all the harder to do so.

By: Vicente Lozano

Vicente Lozano — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 17:58:38 +0000

At the end of the day, it’s a “cake and eat it too” movie. As was “Inglorious Basterds”. Not to say that both are not entertaining, or that they can’t be wrestled into some context where they offer throught provoking commentary. But it is that very wrestling, that mental game of Twister, that is the signature Watusi of a white critical world. I accept this, and watch it with the fascination that I did the dancers on “American Bandstand” trying their darndest to approximate funk.

Thanks for a thoughtful post.

By: Vicente Lozano

Vicente Lozano — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 17:57:16 +0000

At the end of the day, it’s a “cake and eat it too” movie. As was “Inglorious Basterds”. Not to say that both are entertaining, or that they can’t be wrestled into some context where they offer throught provoking commentary. But it is that very wrestling, that mental game of Twister, that is the signature Watusi of a white critical world. I accept this, and watch it with the fascination that I did the dancers on “American Bandstand” trying their darndest to approximate funk.

Thanks for a thoughtful post.