When I clicked on the trailer for the new Australian film The Survival of Kindness, by the ‘visionary’ filmmaker Rolf de Heer, I was unprepared for the images I was confronted with.
This brings me to the use of a cage. Why is a human locked in a cage? On top of all of that, lead actor Mwajemi Hussein’s character cannot speak, which reminds me of all the times my opinions and ideas were ignored simply because they were coming from me, a Black woman. I think there are ways to discuss racism in film, but these do not, and should not, be detrimental to the people who continue to experience racism to this day.
