Detroit Is Other People
Where's Jean-Paul Sartre when you need him? There's something very No Exit-ish about the way people keep implying that the premise of the 2017 movie Detroit is okay with them while in the same breath arguing that it's better suited for other people. It makes me kinda surprised that the studio didn't simply rename this movie Detroit, c'est los autres (Detroit is other people) or better yet, Detroit est pour les autres (Detroit is for other people).
In an odd way, that makes me kinda proud to be a native-born Detroiter.
Of course, when you grow up hearing your Mexican-born father tell stories about having to sit in jail and listen to the sound of his friends getting beat up by various members of the Detroit police, it's hard not to consider a lot of the stuff in Detroit to be old news. Yet I would like to think I learned something from this movie anyway.
Where's Jean-Paul Sartre when you need him? There's something very No Exit-ish about the way people keep implying that the premise of the 2017 movie Detroit is okay with them while in the same breath arguing that it's better suited for other people. It makes me kinda surprised that the studio didn't simply rename this movie Detroit, c'est los autres (Detroit is other people) or better yet, Detroit est pour les autres (Detroit is for other people).
In an odd way, that makes me kinda proud to be a native-born Detroiter.
Of course, when you grow up hearing your Mexican-born father tell stories about having to sit in jail and listen to the sound of his friends getting beat up by various members of the Detroit police, it's hard not to consider a lot of the stuff in Detroit to be old news. Yet I would like to think I learned something from this movie anyway.
Labels: Detroit, Detroit: Zona de Conflicto, Jean-Paul Sartre, Kathryn Bigelow, Películas Nuevas VI, Policía, Raza
posted by Tonio Kruger at 10:58 AM
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