-Pelo Malo (2013)
Films are glimpses into a fantasy world. It is the real world documented and then manipulated. I think it is important that our fantasy worlds include all identities.
This blog is required for my film class entitled Black, Brown, & Queer on Film. I think a post I made for another class is applicable:
"My name is Steven Nicholas Castillo Errickson. I moved to the United States with my father when I was six. My mother and sister came a year later. Growing up I was embarrassed by how my family looked. We were poor and lived in a trailer park in Arizona. It took a long time for me to accept that marginalized communities and peoples were not separate from me.
Film tradition has codified standards of representing black and brown people. This can be helpful. It can be devastating. What annoys me is that it is hard for artists to make content separate from the color of their skin or the color of their subjects skin unless they are white. At least, that's what it feels like to me. My goal is to try and normalize life as life and truth as truth. I want to someday watch Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones and for everyone to be brown or black and for this to be ok. I think changing how we think of our fantasy worlds starts by changing how we listen to the other. Listen to what is said not how it is said."
Hey Steven!
ReplyDeleteI appreciate this blog so much! I think it's important that more marginalized communities see themselves in media. We need more representation of marginalized communities in the media. I feel like often times we see marginalized representation in a very stereotypical manner and we never see us portrayed in a positive light. I guess there's a question whether we should portray marginalized identities as close to our reality or in manner that would put us in a positive light in hopes of inspiring us.