A Study of Perspectives Essay -- Paris Burning Film Movies Essays

A contemplate of PerspectivesLivingstons documentary Paris is Burning inspired an awareness of being that I had not previously experienced. The film urges the spectator to reevaluate not provided ones breadth of knowledge of the black gay culture in the 80s, unless also the perspectives from which one views the film. Personally speaking, the easiest evaluation of the latter topic would be the perspective of a privileged white straight female innate(p) into a sheltered and socially traditional household. This background would thus glossary my reaction to the film one of intense sadness for the featured interviewees who yearned for an earth which was mostly unobtainable except in the case of extreme release and typically led to social ostracizing and ridicule (even in some cases, death) yet this existence they yearned to emulate was something I had been born into without struggle nor appreciation, it was obviously my life. and one could say my perspective of pity and guilt wa s actually clean of a perversion of the deeper meaning of the film. My feelings were not enlightened but the reverse I was subjugating the peoples identities in the film by not recognizing their independent validity, and merely reacting to their performance of emulation with condescending sympathy. My depression over the film resulted not from what Bell Hookss depression stemmed as she explains her views on the film It is a documentary affirming that colonized, victimized, exploited black folks are all to ordain to be complicit in perpetuating the fantasy that ruling-class white culture is the quintessential site of unrestricted joy, freedom, power, and pleasure. (Hooks, Is Paris Burning? pg. 149) I was only saddened by the feature that the performers in... ...int their faces brown and wear prosthetic breasts and butts would reference historic oppression, but that this historical oppression still effected people of today and was not simply a story of past times, but a conti nuing struggle. standardized the deeply rooted racism and classism of Paris is Burning, a film apparently celebrating the culture and people it serves to eventually dehumanize, the actions of Bert and Ernie stood for much more than two Haverford students abstracted perspective and foresight. Bert and Ernies actions stand for a more deeply rooted hassle of young people today forgetting that we are still struggling for equating and respect within our society and that no one is immune from this necessary for empathy and understanding. Works CitedHook, Bell (1992). Is Paris Burning? , Black Looks. (pp. 145-156). The Muppets Abstract. Oct. 5th, 2004.