For the 3 people who've never seen the movie "48 HOURS" with Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte knows there's alot of scenes of Racism and whatnot and how would students in 2024 handle a movie like this from 1982?? Wasn't really sure where to pose this question either, whether here or the Politics Forum?? π€
The problem with your scenario is that university students will most likely tend to have a less shallow appreciation of an issue than your "....there's alot (sic) of Racism and whatnot.."
Ironic that you start a thread from which we're supposed to infer that you have a better appreciation and understanding for the movie than others might. Yet you describe it as "..alot(sic) of scenes of Racism and whatnot...."
I will not imagine such a thing.
Still, they study the works of Tayor Swift at University now.. so.. yβknow..
I'd rather they show this: https://moviechat.org/tt0274518/Gayniggers-from-Outer-Space
sharePresumably, you're imagining undergraduates watching the film. And really it depends what they're studying, doesn't it? I mean, if they're being shown 48 Hours in a seminar on European history or molecular chemistry or something, they'd probably react with some confusion. And rightly so.
If it's a film or media studies group or something in that vein, they'd probably 'handle it' by watching it, discussing it afterwards from a number of different perspectives -- sociological ones, film theory ones, including talking about its themes of race and racism and how that might be approached differently in a film made forty years earlier or forty years later -- and then go home and not really think about it ever again.