This might be the most problematic movie I've ever seen. I realize things have changed in the 20+ yrs since it came out, but what's happening here is unacceptable in any time. Yes I mean the blackface but also I mean how disastrously unfunny it is. It is all just unacceptable. The only thing funny about this movie is its name. Watch it as a cultural artifact, like a lesson in both cultural insensitivity and as an example of what happens when people make a movie about a field- here, anthropology- that they know nothing about. Again, that could all be forgiven if it was funny or entertaining but it is just inappropriate. I mean even the music is inappropriate, like there's ominous music when there's no threat, there's goofy music when something sad happens. It's bizarre. It's all just bizarre.
Review of Krippendorf's Tribe
