It was a interesting "concept" movie, I would have thought a 7 or at least a 6 rating here. As a US citizen who lived in the states 37 years, I think it was a pretty accurate portrayal of what a "flip-flop" of the color barrier would be like (i.e. how stereotypes get set etc).
I agree and rated it a 8. I just bought a used VHS copy of this movie, out of curiosity mainly, and greatly enjoyed it. Both Travolta and Belafonte did excellent work, and the concept is an excellent one. Kudos to everyone involved
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I, too, was pretty surpised about the low ratings. Yet, it seems that people want to have "tied-up ends", and the movie doesn't give that (nor does life for that matter!) I thought that it was a great movie because it throws the viewer into a reality where roles are reversed. This role reversal suddenly makes things hit home in a way that history books or intellectual knowledge can't. By internalizing the experience, it can disturb a person's comfort and force people to reflect on things that they had hoped were already over. I did some checking and found that Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem in 1899 entitled "White Man's Burden"; however his version was about the colonialists role and obligation to uplift those they colonized - the burden of "superiority". Interesting twist on the part of Nakano.
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I gave the movie a rating of 5 (average) because it was a concept that could have been much better but turned out to be very average.
Upon viewing the film I didn't go in expecting a revolutionary piece of cinema but it would have been nice if the movie dug a little deeper into the consequences of the reversal of cultures on the surroundings instead of just making the black people white and white people black.
Does that make sense?
The only thing I really noticed in that capacity was that some of the colors used in the interior of the upper class houses were darker than normal.
The movie approached a/ weighty social subject and didn’t even scratch the surface of the cultural impact of the reversal.
I gave it a 6, which in my book is pretty high. I feel that it had good performances and a great premise... it was well set up, but it just faded into a TV movie after about half way through.
sharei'm not surprised. the truth hurts and pain is good.
shareI just saw this movie it's a great fantasy piece but it does deserve a higher rating.
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