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Daughers of the DICK

posted 15 years ago by landyisawesome_9
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this is, hands down, the most boring movie i've ever watched in my entire life. Coming from someone who has never walked out of a theatre, never stopped a movie halfway, and never turned down an excuse to watch a film in class, it is currently on the screen in the class I'm in. Seriously, the only seconds of my life not lost on this film were while I was going to the washroom.

I did like the part when she put green things on the kids heads though.

overall, 7/100, 5 because of the green things, 2 because I had something to look forward to for the entire 2 hours: the ending.

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[–] Screenwriter_Brandi 13 years ago

You have such a way with words.

[–] keithruth 11 years ago

Agree with you entirely. Absolutely the most boring thing I've ever seen and absurdly overpraised, not for the way it's done, but for its content. If you were to apply this non-narrative technique to a film with other content, those that praise it would be asleep.

[–] activista 11 years ago

I have to admit, the film was hard to for me to understand the first time I saw it back when it came out (in a theater) but having seen it again years later, I appreciated it a lot more,because I think I finally understood what DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST really is---an African film made in America. I can say that only because I've seen enough African films to make the comparison. I get it now, and that's why I like it.

Basically, the film's slow-moving structure is hard to take for the average viewer who is used to the average film narrative being fast as hell nowadays. The director herself was teaching in Detroit earlier this year (during Black History Month) and curating a film festival at the Detroit Film Theater (it kickstarted with some of her films, of course) and I got to ask her how she felt about a being a pioneer in film, and she said that she didn't really feel like one---she was just doing what she always wanted to do,which was making films. I also said that I wished her short film ILLUSIONS could have been expanded into a longer film, because I felt the subject matter (a black woman passing as white working in the film business)warranted it. It also focuses on a part of American history rarely dealt with or seen onscreen,for that matter,which is also why I liked it.

[–] Snakesmart 9 years ago

snakesmart

This movie was not for the mainstream commercial movie goer. There was carefully thought out African symbolism and archtypes of what the Afrocentric intellegentsia would call the Paut Neteru embedded in the plot.

I watched the film over 20 times in order to glean different facets of the messages it was conveying and the emotions it evoked. I believe it was a film layered in different meanings and each time I finished watching it, I was very moved but in different ways.

Not everyone can appreciate a film of this genre, especially if you are like approximately 90% of the American movie goers who are symbolically illiterate.

For example I believe that the Matriarch(Nana)in this film represented Binah or Sekert which is an old woman of power.

Eula who was the pregnant woman represented Isis/Auset and Yellow Mary represented Aphrodite/Het-Heru. These are spheres on the tree of life which is a strong indication of how deep the rabbit whole goes. If you take these woman's roles into consideration coupled with the plot it might help to decipher some of the interwoven meanings in this film. There was heavy influence of African ritual in this film as well which has been foribly stipped from most African Americans cultural ethos.

I can see why anyone interested in entertainment would not watch this film. If, however, you seek a film that is beyond entertainment and conveys hints of wisdom, please give this film a chance. It is a Masterpiece and at the very least should receive our respect if not our understanding.