Our Son

Our son, Micael, has been visiting us lately so that we can watch certain films he deems to be classics of the cinematic world. We started with "Django Unchained." Actually, I thought I'd seen that one before, but in watching it, I realized that I had not seen the entire film. It was difficult to watch. However, that the director, Quinton Tarantino, posited a story where a black man is able to exact revenge for the wrongs done not only against himself on the woman he loves, is a refreshing change. So many films and books assign victim roles to people of African descent that it is difficult to watch them. Also, so many series fail to cast African American men and women as capable of solving problems. I'm thinking of a certain mystery show set in the Carribean where a white male is always the person who solves the mysterious death of a character. It's as if the black people who live on the island have no intelligence to solve the mystery themselves. We know this is not true, but hungry for any representation of African Americans in films and television, we watch anyway. We're always hopeful that there will be someone brave enough to cast a woman or man of African descent in a leading detective role. So when I watched the film, "Django Unchained," I was pleased to see that the director and writer was so ahead of his time. It was written by Terantino in 2012. I remember it coming out and thought I had watched some of it. I could not bear to watch certain parts. It was just too violent. At the time, I was unable to stomach it. However, we see that the director and writer made some important statements about the abilities of African Americans at the time. I'm pleased that lately, there have been women of African descent featured in leading detetive roles. I watched two seasons of a series featuring a woman of African descent who has family on the island where she works as the lead detective. She is paired with a saucy, short woman who gives the bad guys hell and who has a randy appetite for men. After I watched to two seasons, the streaming service insisted I buy the episondes through a streaming service that I did not have, so I gave up on watching it. But if there is anyone out there listeing or reading, that show is really good. It's called "Deadly Tropics," and is produced by the French. I'm so sorry that the distributors are making it difficult for people in the states to watch. It's a great show. I love both the female characters played by Sonia Rolland and Beatrice de la Boulaye. The directors and writers do a good job of casting them in postive roles. The supporting male character, played by Julien Baramis, is excellent as well. Sonia Rolland's character, does a good job at playing a woman with a complicated family life but a compassionate nature.