Rather than respecting the lives torn apart at our imperialism, we mute and erase them
It is rare that I leave the cinema deeply offended with what I’ve just seen. Yesterday, after watching the just released Victoria & Abdul, was one such day.
As a Tory government plunges our country back into an isolationist dump, so too is British film and television regressively stuck in the past. A past, however, which it refuses to honestly interrogate.
Based on true events – “mostly,” as the opening credits confess – Stephen Frears’ latest work tells the story of an unlikely friendship between Queen Victoria and an Indian servant (who is shipped from India, without a say in the matter, to gift the queen with a coin).
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Well, the quotation of Dr. Tarik Ramadan comes to mind, where he said in an Al Jazeera interview: “We are being destabilized, because we are destabalizable, just like we were colonialized, because we were colonializable”