So I'm sitting here watching HANCOCK on Starz--you know, the one that came out last year with Will Smith and Charlize Theron, with a side of Jason Bateman thrown in? I saw it the first time with my mother and her latin lover, and we all agreed it was just "meh." However, one thing struck me (SPOILER ALERT!): HANCOCK is not simply an action film with a dose of humor thrown in. It's a cautionary tale against interracial love.
Seriously, this breaks my spirit, and hits home even harder after the death of MJ, who valiantly sang "if you're thinking of being my baby, it don't matter if you're black or white...."
In the movie, Will and Charlize both have special powers, and in a huge reveal, we discover they were made "as pairs. But the closer we get to each other, the more our powers diminish." They are, in essence, made weaker by being together. Their (interracial) love can never be!!!! The climax of the film involves Will leaping through the air as Charlize lies near death on a hospital bed. Only by getting farther and farther away from her does she survive her gunshot wounds. In the end, we see her with (WHITE) Jason Bateman, having their nuclear family of Caucasian love and acceptance.
Why would Hollywood do this to me? Why would Will do this to me? Charlize maybe has some South African issues, so who knows if it was this very message that drew her to the film (jk, guys, don't freak out!).
Why didn't anyone call this out earlier? I'm going to have to bring this to the attention of my peeps at CinemaBlend. Perhaps they can post a retroactive review.
Um, I have a lot of free time. Anyone want to sit on a rooftop bar and have engaging conversation?
3 comments:
I know!!!
Isn't it telling, how the black man must sacrifice and suffer in order to protect the caucasian nuclear family?
Dating the same race is the new taboo. Honestly I see so many mixed race couples walking around, it just ain't that exciting to see anymore (at least not as taboo and exciting as when when my middle-aged black self was dating white boys in the Seventies. Even I went back to black and I had a long history of whiteboy-itis. Hollywood decided to get ahead of the trend and change it up.
HOLY SHIT. Never thought of that movie like this. Let's start spreading a conspiracy theory that Hollywood was trying to promote that message subliminally.
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