To be honest: this post more or less is the intellectual property of Rick de Gier (author of film reviews in a Dutch Weekly and this site). This week he wrote about movies which deal with food, in connection to the release of this Brazilian-Italian movie called “Estrômago“. It promises to be a black comedy [...]
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A very learned man, not even half my age, was on the Telly last night. Though he is a sociology professor, he had quite a lot of interesting things to say on strategies to exclude minorities. But I will not go into them here and now. However, to my dismay he joined [...] The saying goes ‘tell me what you read and I’ll tell who you are’. And vice versa of course. Some German philosopher even went as far as saying that you are what you eat. To me it seems to imply that your real identity can be known by what you relate to. One of the most effective ways to address taboo’s is by getting the laugh on one’s side. That is what, at least at first sight, Quickie Express (2007) promises to do. This Indonesian movie, directed by Dimas Djayadiningrat, claims to take on all kinds prejudices about the country’s minorities, the “tribal” system and [...] |
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