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Let me get this straight...

posted 8 years ago by Lechaise
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South Africa put pressure on the marriage to not go ahead because of their own political issues, Clement Attlee bowed to rpessure and forced a government enquiry, the powers that be in Bechuanaland also disapproved and the Church of England intervened massively to stop the marriage but, soemhow, this film is about the British being the problem?! This sort of revisionist history makes me so damn sick.
Evryone was guilty in this, to place it purely on the ehads of one element is pretty simplistic and a bit too Guardian reader for my liking. They're either all guitly or none are.

[–] Herr_Khan 8 years ago

It doesn't just focus on the British, it sjoes just how much the various national governments, religious institutions and some individuals were against the marriage.

[–] thatscottpack 8 years ago

Far be it from me to suggest you are criticising a film without having seen it but, erm, have you actually seen it?

Although the film does suggest the UK government played a big role in this it also clearly and explicitly includes the Church of England, South Africa and others in Bechuanaland and their motives within the story. Hence my question.

I am generally happy to accept some simplification, conflation and other shortcuts in order to tell a complex story in a short space of time, and the film certainly does some of that, but what it does not do is put the blame purely on the British. Something that actually watching the film would make clear.

[–] cowgoesmoo 8 years ago

Well played, sir.

[–] neverstandinalone 8 years ago

Ditto.

"Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities." George Eliot 1819-1880

[–] politicidal 8 years ago

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Whatever you are, be a good one.