Whity

Doesn't quite get where its reaching, but it has some really disturbing and complicated moments, as well as a few really really beautiful shots.

Hasn't aged too well, especially with Elaine Baker being dyed pitch-black for her role presumably because Fassbinder couldn't find a black actress (though some of the other white actors are further whitened to emphasize the contrast), and a weak script by Fassbinder standards. Offbeat and has some brilliant shots, though.

Whity estreava há 50 anos no Festival de Berlin. Presumo que dá para chamar isso de faroeste salsichão sendo do Fassbinder e vindo da Alemanha... Aqui Fassbinder faz o serviço dos americanos trazendo a catarse da revolta da senzala contra a casa grande em seu estilo mais do que bem vindo. DVDRip no MakingOff.

7+

"Though the genre-blasting Whity sees Fassbinder toying with classic western conventions and trying to subvert distinctly American forms of racism, the moral catastrophes the director exposes are nonetheless played for a world-weary pathos and unive" - Ed Gonzalez

Some of this feels like a nightmare, most of it is just barely scraping by.

I want to like Fassbinder. But like Guy Maddin, he makes films that are visually striking but desperately in need of a good writer. The cinematography is amazing, particularly the use of lighting and color. But the story is a sophomoric look at racism, complete with "ironic" black-face and white-face (and blue-face). I don't like Westerns to begin with, and I certainly don't like German melodramatic Westerns. I usually hate the term "artsy-fartsy," but in this case it applies.