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Tying up dresses

posted 15 years ago by AssetsonFire
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Why were there so many shots of people tying up the backs of women's dresses? There must be a significance to it.

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[–] daveygravy 13 years ago

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[–] jfca283 12 years ago

Maybe is a reference to the only product they manufacture, an ancestral task that still survives. Also in one scene the red ink, for me, is related to a blood fact.

[–] PoppyTransfusion 12 years ago

Quite simply the lending policies of the developed world tie Mali (and Africa) into debt bondage.

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