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Racist comments by the little brat

posted 16 years ago by radcliffeluvr
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I didn't have any problem with the movie at first. I thought it was a nice little melodrama, despite all the corny lines and predictable plotline... until that little brat uttered an incredibly racist comment against Asians, describing them "yellow as urine, hee-hee, they eat snakes!" I don't care if it's 1930's Spain, how does putting a line like that in the script achieve anything? What purpose did that serve? God damn, it was like a blow to the face. After that, I promptly turned off the stupid movie. No wonder it's only got two stars.

[–] swturswt 16 years ago

Totally agree. I just saw this film a few days ago during the New Year's Day holiday. When I heard these words came out from the young girl's mouth, I felt as if someone punched my stomach totally out of blue. The girl said "Yeah, I saw Chinese in New York, they are yellow as urine....and they ate snakes.", the other girl replied with a distorted face saying "That's disgusting"..... Well, these lines are more disgusting than anything I have ever heard in any films I could remember...... Thumbs down to the writer/director of this film.

[–] CeeIMDB 16 years ago

while i can understand some of the publics' need for political correctness in everything that surrounds them, you need to take into account the time and place of this movie and the surroundings in which the character carol finds herself.

this movie takes place in the 1920's first of all. secondly, carol is only but a young girl who's had a few years of living experience in the world no matter how intuitive and astute she may be.

the us, where carol was born was a very different place back then, not to mention spain, her new home where the battlelines were clearly drawn between the fascists and socialists. if you weren't spanish, catholic and white you were destined for persecution.

save the social criticisms. the movie provides more than enough in the way of that. the movie was beautiful.

[–] kenmal-1 16 years ago

Actually the movie is set in the thirties (1938), but I agree. Even now kids would say some stupid things, that they were probably told or overheard from somebody. To never admit that this happens would be stupid.

Just because it was said by this girl doen't mean to say you can't have empathy for her (nobody's perfect). And to not watch a movie just because of that statement is ridiculous. Don't you realise that that is just so typical of what kids say. It reminded me of when I was growing up in England in the sixties and seventies, when people who I would expect to know better (both my own age and older) said that Pakistanis ate catfood and put it in their curries.

Fear and ignorance, unfortunately, are the cause of most of the world's problems even today.

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[–] pnj101 13 years ago

How does referring to the character as a "little brat" achieve anything? Or using the Lord's name in vain?

[–] Naughty-God 12 years ago

Her prejudices were obviously learned from somewhere, and you consider the history of Spain and its general attitude towards cultures it had subjugated, destroyed, and absorbed it's not surprising to me that Carol would exhibit such a disdainful opinion.

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[–] dano40-1 11 years ago

The urine comment caused a groan!, but the Asian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean palate is much wider than the west, snakes, cats, dogs, bugs, grubs, bats, civet coffee, poop rice beer, and bird nest soup are very much on the menu even up to recent times, let alone up to 1937.