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Saturday, April 24, 2021 03:12
I am reminiscing about a a favourite scene from the Rex Harrison version of "Doctor Dolittle"¹ and wanted to share that scene with a housemate. Atonshied that I am unable to find a clip on YouTube, they suggested I try Tubi, an app that offers streams of old movies. No such luck, but I did come across a cache of recent old films that I remember.
Today, while listening to Dinesh D'Sousa interviewing Shelby Steele² about the recent verdict and in particular the more recent incident of the cop killing a teen, Shelby Steele described the situation as an example of what he calls 'poetic truth', telling the story in a away that supports one's political disposition or reach at power.
In some narrative, a White police officer engenders already a racial -- systemic racism, reading. The knife wielding teen is Black automatically makes them the victim. The situation is being described as a knife fight as if the other girl had too a knife and this were some sanctioned gladiatorial contest and the cop has no business being present. BUT none know the name of the girl being attack sans knife in hand, or any other weapon, being attacked.
Who is the genuine victim here?
I recall to mind a brilliant movie "Scalene" (https://imdb.com/title/tt1647477/), a word notably used in mathematics to describe a triangle with all unequal sides, illustrates the utility or value of perspective. "Scalene" is a clever movie done right and 100 times better than whatever Night Shyamalan and Christopher Nolan attempts at being clever or telling a story with a twist.
Watch the movie "Scalene". After the opening scene, answer 'who is the victim?'
By the film's end, re-ask that question and decide for yourself who is the victim.