My People Will Have Degradation, and Your People, Cardigans.
HERE’S A BIT OF GALLOWS AND HOLIDAY HUMOR, Addams Family style, addressing the fallacy of Thanksgiving fables.
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Tags: Addams Family, Film, humor, Indigenous, Thanksgiving Massacre, TV, Youtube
Posted in Filmmaking/Video
The problem I have with this bit from the Addams Family movie is that they simply use the Native American genocide as a vehicle (co-opt) for pre-adolescent angst (white female “outsider” pre-adolescent angst at that).
Thanks for the bigger pic.
You know, I’ve never seen the entire movie. I don’t know the larger context it fits into. To me it’s like a tiny dream sequence. And yeah, I find that every “subversive” Thanksgiving video I see is problematic in some way. Always some blinder there that’s obscuring the entire truth from the maker/author…or interfering with the entire truth being represented.
I really love this scene and the whole movie is great. I think marginalized pre-teens and teenagers get a good taste of what it is like being discriminated against. I am not making light of racism or genocide, but when kids get teased and left out because they are different, smart, disabled, fat, poor, gay, etc. it can certainly open them up to the plight of others and give them an empathy chip. I reckon many of these kids grow up to be activists of some nature, or at least sympathetic….and they have their own journey of tying to fit in or hide their true selves.
That’s a good point. Colonizing takes many shapes, oppression, too. And overall, I have to say, it’s good to see the message in a mainstream movie, even if there are problematic elements one can suss out.