Thursday, January 3, 2008
Unit 5 - Indochine
I disagree with the assessment of Indochine by Panivong Norindr that the film "exerts a dangerous fascination precisely because it brings visual pleasure without questioning or subverting any preconceived ideas about French colonial rule in Southeast Asia." Perhaps the filmmaker's goal was not to question or to make some sort of political statement, but merely to shoot a fictional love story that happened to be set in French Colonial Indochina.
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I'm with you. I think, in a lot of these movies, the "interesting times" just add some extra "spice" to the story. Most of the movies we've watched have been love stories of one sort or another. Zinat seems to be the exception.
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