Albinism in the movies again
10,000 BC the movie.
Give me a break
I just rented 10,000 BC on DVD. Good grief. We are well into the new millennium and Hollywood is still exploiting albinos as monsters and oddities.
Unlike the rest of the 6 billion people on earth, I actually liked the movie. Of course it was stupid. Of course they cast Whites as the lead characters. Of course none of the CGI people realized that pachyderms such as mammoths don’t gallop. But, hey, it was a fantasy. If you can watch Stargate, you can watch this.
Of course the scenes I liked most were the ones with people with albinism in them. In reading some of the less insulting online reviews I see that no one took these scenes seriously. How could you? That is, unless you are a follower of Dr. Welsing who believes the White race was fathered by a race of African albinos. Talk about fantasy.
Anyway, why do the albinos have to be blind? We are not blind. We have crappy vision, but we are not blind. The All Powerful head albino was so hideous and fearsome to look upon that he had to wear a veil. His subjects covered their eyes rather than look at him. Even when he fell in death the veil only showed his chin and not his eyes. For some reason our eyes must freak pigmented people out. I guess because they think we all have pink or white eyes. Give me a break.
In case you missed it, the blind slave who spoke about the so called Gods was also a person with albinism.
We PWA still have a long way to go in the entertainment industry. We will have to endure a lot more of these exploitation movies before we are accepted as real people. But then again, people in wheelchairs are still depicted as evil or pitiable or super human, and people of short stature are still playing Santa’s elves.
All that being said, I thought the young albinos in the temple were beautiful. I tried to find a movie still but I haven’t yet.