Paul and I rewatched one of my absolute favorite movies last night, The Commitments.
In light of The Great Cultural Appropriation Debate of DOOM 2009 (TM), however, it read as a completely different movie from the one that I fell in love with as an Ireland-obsessed highschooler.
Wow.
Still mulling over the implications from this. There's a really fantastic essay about this in the book Soul by Monique Guillory and Richard C. Green that's really worth reading.
I still love the movie -- even with the privilege goggles off. It certainly holds up better than Blues Brothers, which I rewatched a couple months ago and couldn't get past the image of all the marginalized Black superstars crunched into supporting roles for the White guys. But it does give me a lot to think about.