Here is an illustrative thing that happens in this film:Our Black protagonist puts on a suit (this itself is a grand moment in the film as he wore a casual hooded jacket to the opera) and is told that he looks ‘like Obama’.He does not.And this isn’t a moment of cutting critique of systemic and normalised racism. This film presents a white character saying this as heartwarming and nice moment. In this film, it is just the case that a Person of Colour wearing a suit can only be Obama.Who is this character? Well, this is what we know from the film: our Black protagonist wants to live off benefits, doesn’t want to do their job properly and spends the entire movie explicitly lusting after a uninterested white woman. He also doesn’t get this ‘high art’ stuff. The culmination of this is him stopping an orchestra playing Vivaldi to instead put on Boogie Wonderland and then dancing for an entirely white, upper class audience. He’s a stunning dancer, because of course he is, and just parades himself for their pleasure.Our Black protagonist is also consistently sexualised. The only other PoC characters in the film are his family (who are struggling to get by) or are sexualised female masseurs.
>>217004521 Me reading the first paragraph of this thread
>>217004521>muhh racismYou sound gay. Are you a fag by any chance?
>>217004521Dunno kinda liked it. The piano music bruh
>>217004521Yeah Stromae on his promo trips here (got his name on the Hunger Games OST) had to tease about looking like Obama. It was a mania phase where a ~black person climbs the ladder by using Obama as a role model - even tho he's bailed out Wallstreet, pushed thru ACA (authored by Insurance lobbyists as ppl realized too late) & invaded Libya. "The hope of blacks around the world" lolBut this movie was a hit in France due to their chemistry and charismatic actors, + made difficult racial tension sth to overcome.
>>217004780*all 3 events by 2011 - release off Intouchables
