Yes RasWork
There are so many films showing the european perspective of African heroes or events.
Such as the Shaka Zulu miniseries and especially the movie made afterwards, The Citadel. Which has a lot of interesting and possibly educational aspects, including using the Zulu language, but has a very strange feeling when it comes to the glorification of the white womban in the movie, I forget her name, and the way Shaka seems to embrace christianity and white settlers at the end of the movie. A drastic difference from his treatment of his own blood relations (his father) and other Black tribes that he slaughters in the end of the miniseries. So that shows some very strange discrepancies that I doubt are true to reality.
I havent yet watched all of the films the I listed, and as the I mentioned I havent been able to find Simba or The Kitchen Toto. But I did watch Cry Freedom. I thought it was interesting how the white man is the focus of the film, his heroics in support of Steve Biko. It is his perspecive of the story and I guess that is why he is the focus. But Biko dies literally halfway through the movie, the rest is all about the white family and everything they do to get out of South Africa to tell the story about Biko. Which I am sure was a risk just as the movie portrays, I am not downplaying that. It's not a bad movie. Just not a movie from Biko's perspective. It does, however, in showing Biko's explanation to the white reporter, make clear the difference in motivation between white supremacy and Black supremacy, and the fact that "Black first" doesnt mean hatred of whites. Which, considering the reasonings on this forum recently, is worth noting.
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