Arranged
by Diane Crespo, Stefan C. Schaefer
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Actor: Francis Benhamou, John Rothman, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Mimi Lieber, Zoe Lister-JonesDirector: Diane Crespo, Stefan C. Schaefer
Brand: Repnet LLC
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-04
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Film Movement
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DVD Review: Injects its own 'nasty' stereotype
Summary: 2 Stars
As a way of introduction, I'd like to say that I have been a customer of amazon's for about 11 years and my decision to buy a movie, CD or book is often based on customer reviews. However in all those years I had restrained myself from leaving reviews of my own. I could go into a great deal of dicussion as to why not, but that's not what this is about. The question I suppose is; why now?.
Well, about 20 minutes into this movie, I realised I couldn't let my son watch it. If rated, the movie would be appropriate for a general audience. It would seem that innocuous, except for the scene about the "unity circle". It makes no sense to me whatsoever that the character of Justin, a 9 year-oldish African-American boy who, up until the time of the enactment of the unity circle, had contributed to the introduction of the central theme of the "strangeness" of the friendship between a Jewish teacher and her Moslem colleague, should nonetheless be made to play the part of one who 'made the choice' to exclude himself from the circle.
Given the task of choosing just one word that describes him or her, of the children in the classroom, Justin it was that came up with the word 'nasty' to describe himself. As if this wasn't bad enough, there was not an attempt to explore with the child, why he would choose this word to describe himself. Instead there followed a vote to decide whether he should stay in the circle or not based on differing opinions about whether someone nasty should be part of the group - never mind the fact that he had not actually behaved in a way that would warrant a consideration of acceptance or exclusion. If Justin decided he would choose another word other than nasty he could re-enter the group. Subsequently there followed a brief didactic to the children on how we "choose" to be part of one group or not ... . The explanation was even more confusing than the procedure that came before.
At the beginning of the movie, the Jewish teacher's much younger brother had made a derogatory remark about 'blacks' that his father had chastised him about. "We don't use those words in this family".
One may have wondered what the significance of "blacks" is, in the very specific narrow context of the movie - the friendship between a Jewish woman and a Moslem woman. Perhaps the writers were trying to make the case for the idea that prejudice against blacks in this society is of there own doing. They make that choice. Unfortunately the manner in which it was conveyed only serves to perpetuate the negative view of the black male (in particular) in this culture. Justin is given the role of expressing a low regard of himself (as is perhaps the prescribed lot of the black child in America,) and yet up until the contentious scene, he had displayed a healthy curiosity about the friendship between the two women that ought to have been instructive in his own life, if the question was addressed with a more common sense response.
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