Another traditional white savior film.
At the beginning, the black girl with green eyeshadow expressed her rebellious views as soon as she appeared on the stage. Compared with the lame white female protagonist, it looked mad and cool. At first, I thought that black girl was the protagonist. I'm still thinking that it's finally the white character's turn to serve as a foil for the black character. Very good, this is very PC. In the end, who knows that she has basically no role in the later stage, and she has not described how she contributed to the promotion of the feminist movement on campus. For me, this is an image of a sexy quirky black woman arranged to "diversify" the film.
What I really dislike is the shaping of the Chinese girlfriend of the white heroine, a very traditional Asian sidekick image, dedicated to the heroine, but was dropped out of school, exists to promote the growth of the heroine, and completely loses itself. the value of. What made me particularly uncomfortable was the conversation between a Chinese girlfriend and her mother. Her mother used very pure Chinese to talk to her (this is good), but she responded in English, implying that she herself did not recognize herself. Of Chinese descent and culture, refused to speak Chinese. What the mother of an Asian girl said is even more incredible. Her reason for not letting her daughter wear a tank top is that she can’t be a doctor if she is expelled from school. "Academics are the most important" and "hope children to be doctors" are very typical stereotypes of Asian strict parents. Numerous Asian jokes that contain implicit discrimination are based on such stereotypes. The film actually needs to be shaped like this. The role came to perpetuate the conservative and unreasonable image of Asian parents. Why can't the Asian mother here be a cool and enlightened mother who supports her daughter?
Media representation is a very important thing. I don’t want people to force color blind and tone deaf on film and television.
In addition, the depiction of the school in the movie is also very one-sided and thin, as if the school is bad for the bad, and all decisions are made purely to confront the protagonist and to put the protagonist in a difficult situation. The students in the school are also portrayed as a soulless group, staying indifferent when the plot needs it, and awakening in time when the plot needs it. It feels like a very naive white character cool text.
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