This film is the allegorical definition of the white/black dynamic.
The scene where "Friday"(not his given name)-now in psychic trauma, is first renamed then trained to call Crusoe "Master" is an intentionally aggressive polemic.
Which begins a relentless,psychological,cultural,political,economic rape and exploitation his fellow castaway.
In a very abstract view it is also a love story. I think Robinson Crusoe actually is in love with "Friday".
It contains both the historical problem and the future solution for this permanent incompatibility. This is a must see film. It cannot be critiqued for "entertainment" value alone.
I wish it was available on DVD.
The scene where "Friday"(not his given name)-now in psychic trauma, is first renamed then trained to call Crusoe "Master" is an intentionally aggressive polemic.
Which begins a relentless,psychological,cultural,political,economic rape and exploitation his fellow castaway.
In a very abstract view it is also a love story. I think Robinson Crusoe actually is in love with "Friday".
It contains both the historical problem and the future solution for this permanent incompatibility. This is a must see film. It cannot be critiqued for "entertainment" value alone.
I wish it was available on DVD.