Blog Post 6
Blog Post 6 To wrap up the course and final blog post, I wanted to talk about the movie The Brother From Another Planet and how eye opening it was when thinking about it from a contemporary point of view. I chose to use this movie and analyze it with the movie The Space Traders for my final essay, but honestly watching The Brother From Another Planet revealed so many realities about Black lives in America that I was able to pick up on because of this class. I also wanted to talk about why this Afrofuturism class is such an important class to take and how I can use it to view the world and be an ally to Black lives in America. The most prominent message was shown through Brother's silence. When watching the movie, I thought this intentional pick by John Sayles to make Brother an alien, Black and mute was very purposeful. It shows how Black voices and even lives in general are always silenced and marginalized. Brother’s voicelessness shows that although he contributes to soci...