Babakieueria is a Satire film which focuses on how people are treated based on the skin colour, this film shows the relationship between Aboriginal people and White people. The type of Satire which is used is Junvenalian which is a rough, abrasive, rude type of Satire. The film was made in 1986 and directed by Don Featherstone who is an Australian filmmaker, his work includes documentaries about significant figures in Australian culture and arts. The purpose of the film is to show racism in society, how Aboriginal people are treated and the stereotypes about them as people and of their culture. Humour is used in this film, real humour, satirical humour about real life events and problems. The three types of humour I chose to focus on during …show more content…
The reason I chose to use this humour for Babakieueria is because the film itself is dark and depressing, the way that the people are treated of both skin colours isn’t pleasant, in the film we see a white girl get taken away from her family and in real life that happened to Aboriginal children. Another example of Dark humour is the pessimistic attitude of both cultures. An example of this is when Bunji Gunji the police superintendent says that “We pour money into white people and look what happens they either get drunk or end up in jail or both” this shows that he believes that only bad things will occur if white people are …show more content…
I choose to use this humour because I believe that this film mocks the lifestyle of white people. White people live in a very simple lifestyle with the farther going to work, the mum staying home to do house work and the two young children going to school. The police superintendent in the film says “They might have to get off their back sides and do a decent days of work for a change” this insinuates that white people don’t try new things, this is one of their weaknesses. I believe that another weakness of white people is of voicing their true opinion for example when the reporter asks the parents if they believe that the government are “doing the right thing” the father says “aww yea” he says then the mother says “very good” “they’ll look after us don’t they kids” the father says while looking at his son “but you said the other night why can’t they put TV shows with white people?” then the dad responds with “aw yes we say that but it doesn’t mean anything were really happy”. As you can see the dad denies his own opinion once the camera is on him, this is one of the weaknesses white people show throughout the
One of my first thoughts when I started Dear White People was: ‘I wonder how this show comes off to white viewers.’ The jokes and references the characters were using in the show were very particular to black
Firstly, perceptions can endanger relationship ties. This is prevalent when the priest says that ‘I knew your aboriginal kind would be worth nothing’. If this statement is said publicly or to someone who is of aboriginal decent then it would definitely engender an uproar or a physical conflict with the individual or the Aboriginal community. Although the film satirises this stereotype through dance, in
His idea for the film stemmed from the election of President Obama in 2009. During this time, Peele stated “...people were living in an illusion of a post-racial world.” and “We’ve got Obama so racism is over, let’s not talk about it. That’s what the movie was meant to address.” The main purpose of the film was to share his belief that racism was still very much of an issue. He had hoped that this would open the eyes of society to the issues of racism starting from the Obama administration. He also wanted to shed a light on racism that was not previously thought of, such as white culture desiring to be more “black” because “black is in fashion” (Staff).
When racism is used in comedy, it tends to normalize racial stereotypes and then these stereotypes become common sense. This film in particular helps “classify our world in terms of the categories of race” (Hall). As viewers, either white or black, we can’t help but receive the film as offensive. White chicks has managed to offend most of the demographic of their audience. Depicting white people as pretentious and rich and black people in a derogatory manner is offensive, no matter how you spin it. But as a film in the comedy genre, the viewers know that the media text was meant as a joke. So people could find the stereotype jokes were funny, because there is truth to them (which is indicative of a problem of normalized racial
“If the police showed up she would have to drop me and pretend I wasn’t hers, like I was a bag of weed”(28). Humor like this in Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime, produces easier to absorb content since his memoir is full with hard to swallow concepts. The story he shares follows him, a half black and half white child, growing up in South Africa during apartheid. For this reason Trevor was quite literally born a crime. He writes about the struggles he had to face growing up with his mother side of the family, the black side. Although the odds were against him the day he was born, he is able to accomplish many things thanks to the help from his mother who would literally take a bullet for her children. Although many writers use dark humor to tell
The play uses stereotypes and biased cultural
I saw racism in the movie for example when the cops target a Suv because they saw a colored couple, but when a white coupled pass by they don’t stop them or anything. The cop takes advantage of the colored girl because the cops are white and know they
Aboriginal women is sexualized, assaulted, and mistreated in today’s society, and the novel portrays this inequity. Lisa’s friend, Erica, was in Terrace, when Lisa witnesses her being harassed by a group of white men. The men were teaching Erica how to “fuck a white man,” when Lisa intervenes. The men call the girls “a squaw, “cunt”, and “bitch” (Robinson 250). The
In the film Rabbit-Proof-Fence (Fence), director Philip Noyce has portrayed the extended effects of the cruel treatment of the half-caste children. This is done through evidence of physical and sexual abuse, the dehumanization of the Indigenous children, and the forced cultural assimilation of the taken Aboriginal children. Therefore the statement is true to a large extent, however the ways in which Noyce does this are occasionally ambiguous and vague.
The degree of connection between all of the characters in the movie is so coincidental and interrelated to emphasize the point that we do not always know what is going on with everyone else we may encounter. It also accentuates the fact that racism is not one particular race against another. It also shows that we never know someone’s situation and what is happening in their life to make them act the way that they do if
This movie continues to show all different types of racism. In one scene, two black men were walking down the street complaining of how everyone is so racist. The district attorney, Rick Cabot (Brendan Fraser), and his wife, Jean Cabot (Sandra Bullock), were walking down the street. She was holding his arm and started to hold him closer because she was cold. The two black men saw her and assumed that she was scared as they walked by them. Later on, the two black men steel a SUV at gun point. The passengers of the SUV just happen to
The emotional reaction that the filmmakers intended for anyone who watch this film is that no matter what skin, hair and eye color is no one deserves to be labeled. No race should be discriminated and criticize. We should all get along and just be proud of where our roots come from. This film also intended for everyone who watch this film, is that there should not have to be obstacles to be proud of your own race.
The film’s protagonist, Chris, is subject to a racially-motivated kidnapping at the hands of his girlfriend Rose Armitage and her family. In Peele’s original version, two white police officers arrive at the Armitage estate to find Chris surrounded by the dead bodies of a white
Babakiueria revolves around a role-reversal society in which white people are treated unfairly. Throughout the film commentator, Duranga Manika, strives to explain the Babakiuerians’ way of life, however she fails to apply a willingness to fully understand certain aspects of their life so judgment can be rendered fairly. As the white people are not highly valued in this society it is reflected in the way the government treats them and how Manika describes them.
One of the most underappreciated and unrecognized forms of comedy is black humor. Black humor often deals with events that are not often associated with other forms of comedy, such as war, murder, insanity and death. The main reason that this form of comedy is so underappreciated is that it requires some thinking on the part of the audience and many people are not willing to do that. The types of humor that are popular today do not require much thinking and can be characterized as one-liners. However, black humor has been used as an effective means of satire usually towards a tragic event.