Post by biggs4life on Mar 17, 2017 9:09:45 GMT -5
If the subject of this post did not clue you in, this may be a bit rambling (you have been warned).
I have not had a chance to go see 'Get Out' by Jordan Peele but the fact that a black filmmaker made a well-received horror movie is encouraging to me. Why? Because someone is stepping a bit outside the box that movies made for, by or about black people tend to be in. I am really looking forward to 2018 and being able to watch 'Black Panther' a Marvel MCU movie about an advanced futuristic African society that rivals any nation in the world. A good dream to have right for the real world. I want a real Wakanda!
What I really want however is someone to make a movie about the future (a sci-fi movie) that provides a vision of things to come in light of the coming 'Singularity'. It really interests me at a deep level how technology will change human relationships and even the very definition of humanity in the future and what these changes will mean for black people and culture.
Much of what we African-Americans tend to speak about in our culture revolves around race and race relations. We constantly strive to define exactly what it means to be 'black'. In the future the issue is likely to become what it means to be human itself. Identity is something that lately has become news fodder. We have politicians deciding which bathrooms can be used by who and in the semi-recent news we had a white woman 'Rachel Dolezal' who identified as black and headed a chapter of the NAACP despite her birth race.
What do we do when changing identity offline becomes as easy to do as it is online? Will race and race relation stil matter or wil they matter even more?
That is simply one question that should be asked or speculated upon in consideration of the exponential progress of technology. There are many more questions that can and should be asked. Let us not fall behind from spending all our time looking backwards when there are so many interesting things in the future. Can someone please make an intellectual sci-fi movie about black people in the future that is NOT about race orr race relations (like an Eve's Bayou) but does showcase a black perspective on technology and its intersection with black culture. In the meantime I will be patiently and eagerly awaiting Black Panther and seeing how Wakanda is presented.