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The real problem with this movie


If racial prejudice is alive and well, why do all these people in lily-white upstate New York want to be in black bodies?

I get that THEY would think racism is over, so they assume it won't be a problem for them. But that only makes sense before they experience it themselves. This procedure has clearly been done many times and there's no suggestion that anyone has any regrets or faces any, you know, racism once they take over their new forms. I am sure they're a bit insular and interact largely with their own creepy community within a community, but I don't feel like they're living in The Village either, know what I mean. An unintended message seems to be that maybe racism is not so terrible these days, or people wouldn't be begging to be black in heavily white areas!

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The main theme of the movie for me, is that overt racism is easy to spot and condemn. But liberal racism (fetishizing black people as magical other creatures) is subversive and subtle.

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"If racial prejudice is alive and well, why do all these people in lily-white upstate New York want to be in black bodies?"

you literally just did not pay attention to the movie.

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