...Insightful

Reassemblage...I find this film masterful when I think about it...however the delivery still sits poorly with me...this is not because of the filmmaker, but because of the stereotypes [the filmmaker visually represented] placed on African people in general...i can remember when my classmates [and on occasion some adults] used to ask me questions about my home as if they expected it to still be a tribal setting filled with half-naked men and women who's every action somehow depicted them as uncivilized...i make this connection to the film because although it was about senegal, it was about all Africans...Africans share a connection that is unexplainable...even though we are separated by borders on a map and tribal differences, we are the same people in the end, and i think that's why i was almost offended by the images because i could feel the filmmaker depicting my people in ways i wasn't comfortable with...i enjoyed how the filmmaker didn’t abuse her outsider perspective of the Senegalese…she chose to speak of them without labeling them or using stereotypes to establish who they were as people… her approach was commendable, I believe this is the most appropriate way to view people of all races and creeds…overall, after gaining understanding of the film, i realized how profound Trinh T. Minh-ha's thought process and delivery for this film was…i really appreciated this one...it made me THINK!!!

p.s. [not that the others haven't...but this thought process was unique and more personal…I really like that about both films; they had personality]