When I watched this on Netflix there was a short disclaimer warning about parts of the film. What was that about? I can't find what it said and I'm too lazy to go back to the beginning of the film.
shareHow can they watch any movie? So no aborigine could watch The Godfather because Marlon Brando is dead? Or is it only dead aborigine people? How would they even know whether all the actors or actresses in a movie are alive or not? Seems a pretty silly superstition.
shareI believe they avoid seeing images of dead family members - it's not just anyone who is now dead.
shareIt's not a silly superstition, it's an ancient custom and just as valid as any other funeral tradition. You can't say the name of the dead person either, which complicates things further.
shareLots of things seem like "silly superstitions" if you're looking at them from a perspective that others people who have different customs and culture than you do. It's a custom for them as is it is for white people to wear black to funerals or white wedding dresses. Those aren't my customs to me, but I'm not f-cking calling them silly now am I, because there's more to life than your own beliefs/rituals/behaviors.
shareThe disclaimer was pretty quick, and I didn't have time to read it. I thought it was warning against trying to recreate the trip shown in the film. Someone would have to be pretty inspired to try that.
shareNo, it is as the poster above described it. It's a warning to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to view the film with caution, as there may be images of now deceased relatives.🐭
shareif something is a tradition, doesnt mean it's all the same. Tradition and superstition is not the same. Colorful clothes are signs that a person is(or at least shows that) happy and positive, and that may be a bad gesture at the funerals for the relatives and others. If ppl wore black cause they believe that if they wore yellow the spirit would jump out of the grave and haunt them till death, that would be a superstition. Not looking at pics of late relatives is superstition just like sacrifices to Osiris. There are tribes that still practice cannibalism and human blood sacrifices, that doesn't mean you have to be a cool 21st century "allequal" dummy and respect that. Some ppl have to upgrade from their pseudo-spiritual mumbo jumbo. Every tradition has to be analysed not blindly taken for granted. Its all the same as friday 13 story or Stalin not making eye contacts with photographers, cause he thought they could voodoo him using the pics.
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