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Matthew Vaughn’s latest film posits a “real” world, one without “superheroes,” but then proceeds to fill that world with the exact same kind of superheroics that populate every other superhero film.
Is The Blind Side brave for depicting the sometimes-racist attitudes that undeniably exist in American society? Or does it shamelessly adopt that same rhetoric to sell tickets to the very demographic (white southern Republicans — “red staters” if you must) that seems most often to have such attitudes? One can’t help but wonder at the subtle — and sometimes not-so-subtle — racial undertones that underscore the film’s very premise.
When Kanye West, at the recent MTV Video Music Awards, grabbed Taylor Swift’s microphone during her acceptance speech for Best Video of the Year by a Female Artist, and pronounced the now infamous words – “Yo Taylor, I’m real happy for you and I’mma let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time, OF ALL TIME!!” – there was immediate shock and astonishment, from both initial viewers and those who caught the outburst later on…
