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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
Perhaps the successful marketing has made it easy to forget this was not a Hollywood film. It's kind of a miracle they even had $30 million to spend in the first place. Spending more was not an option, and what they did is pretty incredible for $30 million.
The whole multinational corporation thing was a bit cliche, I'll certainly give you that, but I think it's interesting that you felt the movie was racist. I hadn't really thought of that, but I can see the point: the white characters were generally stupid, manipulative, and/or evil, and the black characters were primitive gang members running a black market. I don't think that was intentional at all, so I'm not sure it qualifies as shoving a message down anyone's throat, but I can certainly see that criticism.
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I agree, and I think you can throw the racism out the window when you realize it's loosely based on a true story. Spoiler:
There were real people living in those huts who were evicted and the movie does a good job at making that look real. Wikus was literally going door to door pretending he was evicting people and they kept what worked and through out what didn't. I think that's pretty awesome and added to the realism. It was all improve.
I guess what I'm saying is the perceived racism wasn't coming from the film as much as it was coming from the people who were living in South Africa.