Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Indegenous representations
I know that this may not really be an issue that is explicitly in the film, but it is something that I realized while I was watching the film that bothered me a little bit. I admit that this story may serve for very romantic movie purposes, but the absence of anyone that represents the indigenous people of Mexico is something that is not really represented in this film. All of the main characters have a very romanticized European look. They are all evidently high class people withing the country, but there is not a real depiction of what the majority of the Mexican population is made up of. They all look extremely European and the entire atmosphere of the movie is one that is very idealistic of the times and a very Victorian atmosphere; that for the times when there is a revolution do not really depict the truth of the situation in Mexico. As an audience we do acquire a slight glimpse of what is going on in the country at the time with the guerrilleros and the men that are said to kidnap women at the time, but I feel that the atmosphere is not very representative of the time, and maybe its meant to be that way, but this leads into a bigger issue I think within the United States where, even Spanish networks only portray the more anglicized version of Latin American culture. When you flip to a Spanish station all you see are Spanish speaking blonds and like skinned brunettes that are not representative of the majority of the Mexican population. Which is bothersome because there is an unfair representation here.
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