I flinched when I saw the trailer. Seems my intuition was right. I suspect that the makers of “Blended” didn’t intend to give offense, that their depiction of black South Africans was meant to be sincerely affectionate, that their gender stereotypes were based on what they considered to be experience and observation—that the movie reflects not evil designs but a narrowed scope and a filtered point of view. In earlier Hollywood movies, the prejudices built into society at large were reflected onscreen. The exclusions were so numerous and strong that the studio era’s highly distilled sense of the ordinary represented only a small sliver of American society and held it up as an abstract ideal for everyone else. Those older hierarchies were conscious; those of “Blended” seem oblivious ...
Posted on: Mon, 26 May 2014 02:55:16 +0000
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