Entertaining, but strange...

Right at the beginning of the movie, they make a point of calling out satire and the whole movie is supposed to be about one man's idea of satire exposing prejudice. I get that, but what makes it weird is that some of the entertaining parts are set in the most offensive ways of the film, like some of the jokes in blackface are really kind of funny.

The movie gets pretty ridiculous and I get it that it's poking fun at society and some of the things that are wrong with society, but at the same time, it's using those same things to be entertaining, if that makes any sense. In a away, it's like making a film about how porn is inappropriate, but at the same time, the film is porn.

I think I would have benefitted from watching this movie with six or seven friends rather than watching it alone and left to make my own opinions as I watched it. If I'd watched it with friends, I could have seen their reactions to some scenes, such as [spoilers ahead]

When the police shoot all the Mau Mau, but leave the guy who is 1/16th. To me, that's kind of funny because it's like the police shot all the black guys (and girls) but left the one white guy.

Pierre's accent - I've seen others say it was annoying, and it was, but at the same time, it reminds me of people I know (of various races and education) who try to sound more distinguished than they are. I think this part made it's point.

I did like it that Pierre was shot by the girl and after she leaves, he's there wiping her prints off the pistol. He was going to die and she was the one who shot him, but he was still willing to cover for her. Others may have had a different interpretation, but to me, that was just a man trying to do something right for a woman he cared for.

Before I ever heard of this movie, I had a conversation with friends and asked them if any of them found anything in blackface entertaining and none of them did. I can see how tap dancing and spiritual songs can be entertaining, but the art of blackface is really lost on me.

That montage at the end is interesting to me, too. They show some really racist things and I recall seeing Bojangles Robinson mentioned somewhere, but I don't remember seeing him in the montage. I did see Willie Best. I remember him from a Shirley Temple movie, where he was supposed to be stupid, but still managed to do some fairly smart things.

Anyway, that's the end of my rant.

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