black Adam and white Eve?
What was the point of that?I thought it ridiculous.
shareThis entire movie was one big HUH? to me.
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Adam and Eve represent all of humanity. Thus it makes sense for them to be depicted as not just one single race. His dark skin and her light skin imply the full spectrum of races.
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No it was meant to offend. Who really wants to see a black dude with a white chick? Not me. Although, I felt concious of the film's attempt to offend me, so it didn't so much. I must admit though, I feel like chasing a white girl away when I found out she's had a roll in the hay with a black guy.
shareME not being racist as vorefile17 don't mind if i see anyone with anybody. The point of the film was that they saw each other as people nothing more.
sharemeant to offend? Not really, I don't think the target audience was intended to be uneducated regressive hillbillies.
share**it was meant to offend. Who really wants to see a black dude with a white chick? Not me.**
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What decade/century are you living in? In 1950s Mississippi, plenty of white folks would have been offended by this, but this is 2007.
What could possibly be deemed offensive about it today, that is not some unenlightened, racist-throwback thinking? Just what exactly is specifically wrong or problematic with a black man making love to a white woman, or, for that matter, a black woman making love to a white man? Or any other variant of race, ethnicity or belief?
Love is love, and transcends all. Know that.
The point of interracial, was that there was no point at all. It was simply a man and a woman. Nothing more. And as far as making sense of it all, I think the final scene explains it all.
They ate the fruit, they never saw each other the same way afterward. They had sex. They were cast out paradise. Still naked, on they're way to becoming how we all are.
My heart broke when the photographers came. I felt bad, knowing it would never be same again.
I just finished watching the film, and yes...I am still saying, "hunh"? However, "Thank you, eroticnights". I missed the whole "cast out of paradise" parallel. Although, I'm sure I would have grasped it, if my brain wasn't fried from all of this dang homework. Enough procrastination.
Let me get back to my work!
Thanks guys!
Do you think that maybe the part about them being thrown out of paradise has another meaning with the photographers? Maybe even like a black man and a white woman,and even having sex and being openly naked is still today seen as bad by some people. The photographers maybe symbolise society and they werent just getting their pictures because of them being thrown out of paradise but instead because they were breaking taboos and the photographers were looking at them in the same way that those old fashioned people would? Im probaby just talkin out of my arse lol never mind, just wanted to see if anyone thought the same.
shareI had thought the same thing about the photographers. They represented society, us, the everyday people 2000 years after the sin took place. A far cry from being innocent enough to walk around naked and not just feel no shame, but be no shame.
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