#poc women in film

[underratedvisages]

Q’ORIANKA KILCHER in Terrance Malick’s A NEW WORLD (2005)

[underratedvisages]

@likemidnightrains dahlia cazarez-eubank, my beloved 🥰

Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams Friend or Woe, Wednesday

[bixels]

Now that Ghibli's new movie is coming out soon, I've been thinking about anime films and wanna talk about my favorite animated movie ever, Tokyo Godfathers.

TG is a 2003 tragicomedy by Satoshi Kon, following three unhoused people––an alcoholic, a runaway girl, an a trans woman––who find a baby in a dumpster and set off across Tokyo to reunite her with her parents.

If you like the sound of that, go watch it because the rest of this post is spoilers and I have FEELINGS about this movie.

URGHH, the fact that only two moments of true kindness, generosity, and care given to the three protagonists without any expectation of reciprocity are given by a Latin-American immigrant couple and a drag club full of queens and trans women. The fact that, despite her loud and dramatic personality, Hana is the glue that holds the team together and the heart of the whole movie. The fact that this movie pulls no punches at showing the violence and inhumanity committed by "civilized Japanese society" against the unhoused. The fact that Miyuki craves to be loved by her parents and ends up seeing Hana as her true mother. The fact that Miyuki starts off accidentally using transphobic language against Hana, but slowly begins calling her "Miss Hana" out of respect. The fact that, according to Kon, Hana's role in the story is as a mythological trickster god and "disturb the morality and order of society, but also play a role in revitalizing culture." The fact that Hana so desperately wants to be part of a true family, yet is willing to sacrifice her found family so they can be with their own, and is rewarded for her good deeds in the end by becoming a godmother. The fact that, throughout the movie, wind and light have been used to signify the presence of god's hand/influence (this movie's about nondenominational faith––faith in yourself, faith in others, faith in a higher power. Lots of religious are referenced, such as Buddhism/Hinduism, Christianity, and Shintoism), and in the climax of the film, as Hana jumps off a building to save a baby that isn't hers, a gust of wind and a shower of light save her from death. The fact that god saves a trans woman's life because she proved herself a mother, and that shit makes me CRY.

[mysharona1987]

But it will always be the same absolute vibe.

[firelise]

Alfre Woodard on Crooklyn (1994) for R29:

“To my knowledge, we hadn’t seen a Black family that was just presented as we are in life, as human beings,” Woodard said. “I get told in Belgium by white Belgians ‘I love Crooklyn, it reminds me of growing up.’ Which is what happens when you tell a story from a specific point of view, you don’t have to mention race. You didn’t get up this morning like ‘I’m a black woman that wants a cup of coffee.’ You just want a cup of coffee. It was us as we are. Just us being fabulous, complex, funny, delightful, and making ends meet. And seeing, even within that story, that we’re not monolithic...The specificity is what makes it universal. Diversity is not the point; showing reality is the point.”

[talesfromthecrypts]

When I think about how far back the Hays Code put us both artistically and in progressive societal ideals I get so worked up. And then I remember that there are younger people are basically arguing to do it all again and I work myself up some more.

[luxus-aeterna]

in the parlor | IG

[lovedpoetical-ly]

recently saw a post abt the lack of black femme rep in media, so here’s a list of shows/movies i’ve watched with black femmes for anyone who has yet to find decent representation.

(* means i highly recommend)

Shows

1. The Bold Type, 5 seasons *

(Kat, bisexual)

2. How To Get Away With Murder, 6 seasons *

(annalise keating, bisexual)

(tegan price, lesbian, s4-s6)

3. Dive Club, 1 season

(camille, sexuality unknown)

4. Black Lightning, 4 seasons *

(anissa/thunder, lesbian)

5. The Fosters, 5 seasons *

(lena, lesbian)

6. First Kill, 1 season

(calliope, lesbian)

7. Get Even, 1 season

(amber, lesbian)

8. She’s Gotta Have It, 2 seasons *

(nola darling, pansexual)

(opal, lesbian)

Movies

1. The Perfection *

(lizzie, queer)

(gifs are in order of shows/movie on the list)

@cremegrll my mind blanked when i saw ur post so i could only remember one at the time, but i jus found much more.. hope you enjoy these recs!

[sukibenders]

The way some people are reacting to the Oscar nominations, specifically in regards towards Barbie, and many other things surrounding it holds certain undertones, especially when they then start to go and deny America Ferrera's talent among other things, that are very concerning. Like let's not do that. Especially if you're writing an article for a newspaper (LA Times) that makes digs towards the other films and their nominees, mainly who were women, and say that that proves the point of Barbie. Even though the point of the film was that women have to work harder than men just to get their foot in the door, not about shaming other women, but I digress.

[2006aquamarine]

no seriously fuck that post. acknowledging that women are oppressed and are often punished for showing their anger ≠ saying that other oppressed groups aren’t oppressed for showing their anger as well nor that women are the most oppressed group on earth. is it crack? is it crack y’all are smoking? y’all never do this with any other oppressed group 😭

[ashlentine]

songs from POC artists that I connect with deeply (and that also break my heart sometimes) as a deeply sensitive woman of color:

-fallen alien, fka twigs

-what are we gonna do now, indigo de souza

-american gurl, kilo kish

-a stranger on earth, dinah washington

-boyish, japanese breakfast

-bug like an angel, mitski

-younger and dumber, indigo de souza

-NEEDSUMBODY, abra

-i gotta find peace of mind, ms. lauryn hill

-where do we go, solange

[bansheesscream]

We talk about how Dany's ending in Midsommer us not a happy one. She's in a cult, they'll kill her when she gets old, she murder others.

But I don't see talk about Dany participating in the making ritual. Dany will lead young girls to mate with older men. Maybe she'll go out and recruit those men or even lonely young blond girls that lost their families. And she'll be in that room. During the mating.

Dany came from a world where grown men sleeping with 15 year old girls is considered disgusting and rape. Now she'll be encouraging it.

[hamletthedane]

Thank you for reminding me of my other least favorite criticism of this movie.

Love that Oppenheimer is a deeply disturbing horror movie about a man forced to accept that he is, in a person, the representative manifestation of mankind’s evil in committing one of the greatest horrors of human history - LITERALLY acting as the modern Prometheus, tormented by his sins for the remainder of time. Knowing that he will never be pitied and his actions will forever be utterly unforgivable because the blood of genocide and the potential of total human annihilation will eternally drip from his hands.

But also the simultaneous indictment by the film that to blame a single person for the Manhattan Project is to refuse to accept your own capacity for great evil if the ends ever seem to justify the means, and the culpability of every member of a species that lets itself create something so unspeakably terrible.

Hate that twitter’s take on such a nuanced and brilliantly handled examination of those issues is “movie bad because protagonist not evil enough.”

[firelise]

CHEVALIER (2023)

[timaeuslover001]

here the thing about representation film, when it comes to skin color.

i'm not valuing myself based on other people view of me. so I can never be seen again in film and media and its OKAY because I have self worth.

self other you need to have regardless if people outside of you value your or not.

so no i'm to getting excited for every non white lead I see in television, tv, film and animated media.

[knightofdeer]

Don't want to dunk on that person specifically, but the idea that people that look black to us in Medieval art prove existence of black people in Medieval Europe is bad on a lot of accounts, but one of it is that Medieval art isn't known for its realism. Most of the time it was drawn from description alone, and even when an artist specifically wanted to make their skin different they rarely knew the actual skin tones. Like I think I saw a man on Medieval illustration that was literally black as coal and he was supposed to be an Arab. Luke the artist just read "Arabs have darker look" or something like that and drew what they imagined it to be like. And there are other things about Medieval art not being very realistic.

Which is not to say that there weren't non-white people in Europe. For one there was like a lot of Arabs and other people from SWANA all across the Mediterranean coast with some individuals travelling anywhere, and people from any part of Eurasia or Africa could (and did) just come there, but like search actual proves.