Good grief!
Three shorts in a row that I picked at random to review and
they all have blackface in them! I mean
I was all set to comment on the nice music, Pluto’s awkward run cycle, the weird
sidewalk and mud puddle that appears out of nowhere so Mickey’s movements match
the music, kind of, but then we get to the ending.
Pluto chases a cat into the stove the soot falls over
everyone, giving them the familiar black large lipped caricature look, and they
smile away and we’re supposed to laugh at the antics. Yes I know it was made 85 years ago, things that
were acceptable then are not now it happens. And as I’ve said it’s good that it happens, because
it means we’ve grown since then. But I
want to enjoy the effort that went into these shorts from a creative
perspective and you’re making it really hard by including the racial stereotypes
of the day when honestly I don’t think they need to be there. You could have had everyone crash into
another mud puddle and it would have achieved the same thing.
In closing somethings are timeless, this is not.
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