Oh God you can't imagine my relief when they revealed it was all fake. I mean, I was surrounded by Arabs in the cinema, and I could hear their sounds of annoyance when they saw the footage of muslims. I teach Arabs, and when I showed them where to find German news, there happened to be an article about the Boston attack on the frontpage, discussing the possibility of the attackers being muslims. The whole class protested, crying out "No!".
As a German, I know the feeling when movies choose to portray your whole nation as evil. But I also have the privilege of disconnection from that. Decades lie between me and Nazi Germany, and many efforts to never let it happen again. I can't truly feel what muslims watching movies nowadays feel. What *does* it feel like, when the movies coming from a country that caused a lot of the trouble among your people uses your culture and people with a mindset you don't even agree with as generic villains, when no one from the West can be bothered to learn the differences between those people and yourself?
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Date: 2013-05-09 07:18 pm (UTC)From:As a German, I know the feeling when movies choose to portray your whole nation as evil. But I also have the privilege of disconnection from that. Decades lie between me and Nazi Germany, and many efforts to never let it happen again. I can't truly feel what muslims watching movies nowadays feel. What *does* it feel like, when the movies coming from a country that caused a lot of the trouble among your people uses your culture and people with a mindset you don't even agree with as generic villains, when no one from the West can be bothered to learn the differences between those people and yourself?
Anyway.
I was glad.
Great movie. Loved it. :)