A number of people have forwarded me the URL for the trailer and website of “Black Adam The End of the White Guy,” a film about whiteness in South Africa. I even recognized a few of the people in the trailer.
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The point of the film, according to its website, is to “dismantle the White Guy and put him back together as a Human Being.” The publicity suggests the main character, Dominic, would meet and be interrogated by a group of people over dinner or in informal settings while being filmed.
In principle it sounds like an interesting concept. It also comes with heavy intellectual backing (former Idasa head Wilmot James likes it).
However, it’s still unclear what the whole point is. It also does not help that the trailer includes such irritating statements such as “He [the white] guy is now the other [in South Africa].”
However, I can’t make up my mind based on the trailer. I need to see more as sometimes a film turns out different than the trailer.
