I think the film hints at the tragedy on a grand scale, but it is something which is in the future and we only get a glimpse of it in the film. So no, it was hinted at.
I still would have used external source, especially the woodcuts and the like though, because the number of artistic depictions of Native Americans getting slaughtered by Europeans which are contemporary to the time are . . . disturbing. But it makes it harder to argue with the reality of genocide when the artwork is often contemporary, ie, the colonizers too celebratory snapshots of their "good work" (uuuuuuuuuugh).
I basically threw down some of the parts you mentioned first and built the vid towards that on some levels, to make that moment coherent and emotionally involving. So yay! I think it worked. :)
with those shots by the fire, make me think there's a ton going on here with the sexualization of "exotic" Native female bodies too?
Yes, it is possible. I hadn't thought of that directly, I'll admit, when I was making the vid, but it is one way to look at some of the way her body is regarded in the vid. I more or less wanted to equate it with the landscape and the way Europeans saw the land and the Native Americans similarly -- something wild, untamed, innocent even, which required "civilizing" on some level. But sexualizing her is definitely a component of the whole equation.
As for the fire . . . that part was just a recollection of an earlier time for the characters, a more primordial time in their relationship, perhaps, when things had not yet gone to crap. (Hence the fire. A little light in increasing darkness?)
Your use of external source was really effective to widen the perspective, to show the enormity of what was stolen. I will have to read your notes as well because there's a lot of stuff worth unpacking. Just, excellent vidding here.
Ahhhh, cool. I can send you the PDF file of the notshortparts notes if you like, but I'm sure it's a) riddled with typos and it's definitely b) 2,300 words of my ramblange. But if you want it tell me where I can send the link.
And thank you very much for the detailed comment here.
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I still would have used external source, especially the woodcuts and the like though, because the number of artistic depictions of Native Americans getting slaughtered by Europeans which are contemporary to the time are . . . disturbing. But it makes it harder to argue with the reality of genocide when the artwork is often contemporary, ie, the colonizers too celebratory snapshots of their "good work" (uuuuuuuuuugh).
I basically threw down some of the parts you mentioned first and built the vid towards that on some levels, to make that moment coherent and emotionally involving. So yay! I think it worked. :)
with those shots by the fire, make me think there's a ton going on here with the sexualization of "exotic" Native female bodies too?
Yes, it is possible. I hadn't thought of that directly, I'll admit, when I was making the vid, but it is one way to look at some of the way her body is regarded in the vid. I more or less wanted to equate it with the landscape and the way Europeans saw the land and the Native Americans similarly -- something wild, untamed, innocent even, which required "civilizing" on some level. But sexualizing her is definitely a component of the whole equation.
As for the fire . . . that part was just a recollection of an earlier time for the characters, a more primordial time in their relationship, perhaps, when things had not yet gone to crap. (Hence the fire. A little light in increasing darkness?)
Your use of external source was really effective to widen the perspective, to show the enormity of what was stolen. I will have to read your notes as well because there's a lot of stuff worth unpacking. Just, excellent vidding here.
Ahhhh, cool. I can send you the PDF file of the notshortparts notes if you like, but I'm sure it's a) riddled with typos and it's definitely b) 2,300 words of my ramblange. But if you want it tell me where I can send the link.
And thank you very much for the detailed comment here.