Imitation of Life (1934)
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Features
• Black & White
• Closed-captioned
• NTSC
In Theaters : 26 November, 1934
Video Release : 04 August, 1998 |
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Imitation of Life (1934) Customer Reviews
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WOW, The Miseducation of the United States Population
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So, I'm reading these reviews, and it seems that a lot of people like to talk about things that they DO NOT know about. First, I would like to say that this is a good movie. It would never be one of my favorites, but it definitely was well made. So now that that's out of the way....I would never say that the character of Delilah is "understandable for those times" as if her portrayal was realistic. However, her portrayal as a "mammy" is understandable because most portrayals of African Americans in early film had to do with the five basic character types(mammy, tom, coon, buck, and mulatto). Realistically, if you were living through the Great Depression would you give complete ownership of a recipe to someone else who will make millions off of it? I just think it's funny that people find Delilah to be a believeable character.
Next up, Peola. The tragic mulatto. Judging from earlier reviews, I am getting the idea that most people do not know that this is also a stereotypical character as much as the mammy character is. Someone mentioned something about Civil Rights being 30 years away. That might be true, but black activism did not just spring up out of nowhere. The NAACP was founded in 1909, in New York, which happens to be where the movie takes place. If she was upset about the lives of black people in the United States, why would she direct that anger towards her blackness? Especially when she lived in an area where she could have possibly been exposed to black activism.
So yes, good movie even though I found it to be frustrating at times, but please learn the facts. |
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