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Cannes Film Festival Puts Anti-Americanism In Focus
More Ass-hattery than usual this year despite the absence of a steaming pile of crap from Michael Mooooooore. Here's a taste:The dark underside of the United States has taken center stage in several films at Cannes this year, capped on Monday with a scathing attack of past and present racism in America by Danish director Lars von Trier. "Manderlay," about a fictional Alabama plantation where people are living in 1933 as if slavery were never abolished, staggered festival-goers with a disturbing portrayal of America that fails, even today, to come to terms with its racist past. Von Trier, whose fear of flying has prevented him from visiting the United States, won thunderous cheers at the world premiere and a news conference, where he said he enjoyed bashing America on screen because it invades his life even in Denmark. "We are all under the influence -- and it's a very bad influence -- from America," said the 49-year-old Dane. "In my country everything has to do with America. America is kind of sitting on the world. "America has to do with 60 percent of my brain and all things I experience in my life, and I'm not happy about that," von Trier said. I'd say 60 percent of my life is American so I am in fact an 'American' too. But I can't go there and vote or change anything there. That is why I make films about America." So let me get this straight. This Danish guy who's afraid to come to America makes a film about a FICTIONAL 1933 Alabama plantation that is supposed to provide a "staggering" portrayal of racism in America, including present day racism?! Right . . . . I refuse to attack Denmark as a country because their government has been on the right side of the fight against Islamofascism, but dicks like this really piss me off. Posted by: Tibor 2005-05-16 |
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