Я верю: наступит день, когда в этом дневнике сменится тэг ))

[Reu_Tei]

Ну а пока - Локи
Клипы и "all these Loki feels".
Потому что хорошим, но запутавшимся людям всегда сочувствуешь больше, чем однозначно хорошим или однозначно плохим. "He's not evil, he's misunderstood" ))


Надо вслушиваться в лирику или прочитать её заранее, потому что она очень важна в контексте клипа и замечательна в целом.

+1

Вот это на 100% 'Loki feels'. Спасибо товарищу Бране за то, что вместо стандартной пары герой—злодей он подарил нам двух героев, идущих своим путём. И предпочтение отдал младшенькому )))

И вообще, никак не могу отделаться от ассоциаций:

My friend, the fates are cruel
There are no dreams, no honor remains
The arrow has left the bow of the goddess
My soul, corrupted by vengeance
Hath endured torment, to find the end of the journey
In my own salvation
And your eternal slumber

+1

Ещё один. На любимую песню ))


UPD: М-м... глубоко копнули.
Добавляю сюда и поднимаю, чтобы не создавать новую запись.

Loki: An Allegory About Internalised Racism

I really enjoyed Thor when I first viewed it. Like many fans I found Loki to be one of the most compelling characters and villains I had ever watched. Then I stumbled across this short post on Tumblr, and I realised why I related to the character so much. I read Loki as a character who suffered from internalised racism, and I know that experience pretty intimately*.
All his life Loki believed he was Aesir by blood. For years he’s been fed negative messages about Frost Giants – probably that they’re backwards, barbaric and unattractive. For years he’s participated in the Othering of an entire race (species?) and hating them for just being who they are. As the victors of war, Asgard would paint themselves as the noble and courageous warriors in every story and the Frost Giants as untrustworthy, cowardly and sly. Frost Giants are the butt of every joke. It’s clear Loki views them as disposable as everyone else in Asgard when he lets them into Asgard to be killed, just so he can make a point about Thor’s inadequacies.So what does he do when he finds out he’s adopted and biologically Jotun? Naturally, he manipulates events just so that he can commit genocide on his own people.

Maybe this sounds like a long bow to draw for people who haven’t experienced internalised racism, but in my opinion his reaction is a realistic portrayal of what racism can do to people of colour. I’m not saying anyone is going to commit genocide but that’s a lot of hate that’s being directed to people who’ve done nothing to him personally. And because Loki is a Frost Giant that’s also a lot of hate directed inwards AT HIMSELF.

Realistically, those negative messages don’t melt away the instant Loki knows about his heritage. No, what he wants now is to be accepted as Aesir “in spite of” the fact he is Jotun. Because of that he has to be more Asgardian than anyone else in Asgard. He has to hate the Frost Giants more, he has to be tough (not “soft” like Thor at the end) and he has to do something that will prove beyond doubtthat he is Aesir at least at heart.

Imagine if Loki knew he was Jotun from the beginning. His friends and family in Asgard treat him well, but still make remarks about the Frost Giants and how they’re an ugly race of people. They’d try to watch what they said around Loki, but sometimes let a racist joke or remark slip. And they’ll glance at him guiltily and think they’re helping when they clarify: “No you’re good, you’re not like the otherJotun.” Loki will grow up thinking he’s loved as long as he’s a certain “type” of Jotun and one that acts like he’s Aesir and goddamn, why wasn’t he born Aesir?

After he finds out, Loki monitors his behaviour. He makes sure he does everything Aesir, divorces himself from any Jotun-esque traits he might hold. He denounces the Frost Giants more than anyone else, he hates them and their culture and everything they are more than anyone else. He makes derogatory jokes about them, maybe even encourages others to do the same.

I read much of Loki’s pain and loss through the film as an allegory for internalised racism because I experienced it for myself for many years. Internalised racism is growing up with the message that only white people can be complex and successful and happy. Non-white ethnicity and culture is, at best, regulated to a supporting role for the privileged; at worst, it is outright hated, mocked and derided. You want to be happy right? Your brain does a little irrational flip and tells you the only way to be complex, successful and happy is to emulate a privileged person, right down to the racism.

Of course you can never be as good as a white person but you can try**. You can try to be better, and you can try to out-act their privilege. You can proudly distinguish yourself as one of the exceptions to the rule, the “good” type of minority that “acts white”. The price is giving up your heritage, distancing yourself from native cultural practices, from languages, food and clothing.

The emotional toil of loathing yourself stays until you come to terms with your own oppression. But the sense of loss has never left me. When I think back to how I was operating under internalised racism, I remember the positive experiences and opportunities I refused to take because they were too “ethnic”. I remember the deep shame of being non-white, my embarrassment of being seen with other non-white people and especially those who couldn’t “act white” enough for me.

I think about the racist things I did and got away with because of my ethnicity and I’m really glad I’m not that person anymore.

When Loki announces he wants to “destroy that race of monsters” you know, on some level, he’s referring to himself as well. And then my heart breaks into tiny pieces because I remember exactly how it feels to hate who you are.

*I realise that Thor is pretty white-washed in terms of casting and there are only two characters of colour, but nevertheless I found this storyline compelling when analysing it from a racialised point of view.

**People of colour who are able to “pass” as white will have to be a subject of another post.

запись создана: 20.05.2012 в 12:36

@темы: хиддлз

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[foxstone]

A можно я оффтопом? чтобы помочь в смене тега : D
Этот вот Том же похож на Джонни
В общем, ты, наверное, уже в курсе, но, похоже, Джонни'с бэк. И едет на нашу Капу.

А он актёр, я правильно понимаю?)

[Reu_Tei]

foxstone, можно и оффтопом ))) О схожести я тоже писала, где-то неделю назад ))) Она мне - эта схожесть - ну очень сильно по глазам била.
И про Капу я в курсе, уже планирую )) Там будут Чан, Козука, Одыч и, возможно, Вейр ("back" там пока сомнительный) - такое нельзя упускать. Тем более, я уже и так прошлую Капу пропустила. А потом так об этом сожалела (((

Хиддлз - актёр, да. Первый в моей жизни любимый актёр ))

[foxstone]

Да там, кроме Юдзуру, особо смотреть было не на что, так что не печалься Ну Мао еще, я уверена, но я туда не попала.
А чего вдруг Джонни решил обратно воротиться? И зачем уходил, коль уж так?

А как же Яска? А Кан Дон Вон?

[Reu_Tei]

foxstone, ой, как будто я когда-нибудь ездила на Капу, чтобы конкретно на кого-то посмотреть )))) Я ездила с народом пообщаться, насладиться атмосферой соревнований, развеяться, в конце концов )) А неизменные Козука, Чан и Вейр (и новый Юдзуру) - это приятный бонус ))

А чего вдруг Джонни решил обратно воротиться? И зачем уходил, коль уж так?

Слуш, я понятия не имею, если честно. Могу только строить предположения, но лучше не буду. Лучше у фанатов спросить - они всегда знают больше ))

А как же Яска? А Кан Дон Вон?

Они мне нравились в первую очередь своей внешностью, потом уже шла актёрская деятельность. Хиддлз мне нравится в первую очередь как актёр. Он потрясающий актёр. И голосовой актёр. А потом за этим паровозом тянется целая вереница прочих положительных качеств и талантов ))

[Лирохвост]

И дадада, я вполне себе за несмену тэга х))

[Reu_Tei]

Лирохвост, ты даже не представляешь, как я этому рада ))