Gabe And Rich Watch A Movie: Goodbye Uncle Tom
Videogum friend Rich Juzwiak, who writes the tremendous website FourFour and also blogs about Rock of Love: Tour Bus for VH1, likes some fucked up movies, and sometimes he makes me watch one. This week, we talk about Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi's film Goodbye Uncle Tom, which Wikipedia describes this way:
Addio Zio Tom is a pseudo documentary where the filmmakers go back in time and visit antebellum America, using period documents to examine, in graphic detail, the racist ideology and degrading conditions faced by Africans under slavery. Because of the use of published documents and materials from the public record, with actors playing the role of the historical figures, the film labels itself a documentary, and portrays slave life as a non-stop orgy of violence, rape and torture committed by Whites against their Black slaves.
We thought that it was particularly appropriate to deal with this complicated and bizarre movie this week, what with Martin Luther King Day and the inauguration of Barack Obama. In retrospect that might make it the most inappropriate. You will decide that for yourself! If you can even make it through the whole discussion. It is, in a word, long.
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