The British Tribe Next Door
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Is any one else watching this?!
Channel 4 are usually pretty 'right on'. Presumably there were plenty of cultural impact assessments conducted before they plonked a Durham terrace house next to a Namibian tribal village?!
It's got to make some sort of impact when full grown adults are using mirror, stairs and a metal detector for the first time!
Channel 4 are usually pretty 'right on'. Presumably there were plenty of cultural impact assessments conducted before they plonked a Durham terrace house next to a Namibian tribal village?!
It's got to make some sort of impact when full grown adults are using mirror, stairs and a metal detector for the first time!
I watched it. I thought it was very good until they showed her the mirror, and something about that I was quite uncomfortable with, not a clue why.
I also didn’t like it when the daughter wouldn’t take on their traditional dress, I know it’s hard for them, but it has to work both ways.
I also didn’t like it when the daughter wouldn’t take on their traditional dress, I know it’s hard for them, but it has to work both ways.
Mirror bit had to be staged or at least exaggerated, you're telling me they have nothing at all shiny or reflective in their possessions? Never seen a reflection in a puddle or stream or even a bowl of water? The fleet of trucks and plant that have to have been there to erect the fake house or deliver its massive stock of water, none of them had mirrors on? No other cars or trucks ever come along that handy road that the Moffat family drove along?
Surprised St. Greta didn't pop up to complain about the fumes and noise that the generators for the fake house set or the tv crew camp must have been belching out out of shot.
Surprised St. Greta didn't pop up to complain about the fumes and noise that the generators for the fake house set or the tv crew camp must have been belching out out of shot.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com...
The guardian aren’t happy.
ETA neither are any reviews apparently.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co....
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2019/10...
Etc
The guardian aren’t happy.
ETA neither are any reviews apparently.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co....
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2019/10...
Etc
Edited by anonymous-user on Wednesday 23 October 07:25
kev1974 said:
Mirror bit had to be staged or at least exaggerated, you're telling me they have nothing at all shiny or reflective in their possessions? Never seen a reflection in a puddle or stream or even a bowl of water? The fleet of trucks and plant that have to have been there to erect the fake house or deliver its massive stock of water, none of them had mirrors on? No other cars or trucks ever come along that handy road that the Moffat family drove along?
Surprised St. Greta didn't pop up to complain about the fumes and noise that the generators for the fake house set or the tv crew camp must have been belching out out of shot.
Good point. Maybe that’s what was uncomfortable about it, it was totally fake...Surprised St. Greta didn't pop up to complain about the fumes and noise that the generators for the fake house set or the tv crew camp must have been belching out out of shot.
kev1974 said:
Mirror bit had to be staged or at least exaggerated, you're telling me they have nothing at all shiny or reflective in their possessions? Never seen a reflection in a puddle or stream or even a bowl of water? The fleet of trucks and plant that have to have been there to erect the fake house or deliver its massive stock of water, none of them had mirrors on? No other cars or trucks ever come along that handy road that the Moffat family drove along?
Surprised St. Greta didn't pop up to complain about the fumes and noise that the generators for the fake house set or the tv crew camp must have been belching out out of shot.
I'm sure one of the tribes people said. "It's like water on the wall."Surprised St. Greta didn't pop up to complain about the fumes and noise that the generators for the fake house set or the tv crew camp must have been belching out out of shot.
El stovey said:
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com...
The guardian aren’t happy.
ETA neither are any reviews apparently.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co....
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2019/10...
Etc
I get that the programme was somewhat of a cringefest, and something only the most Alan Partrige of commissioning editors would be proud to green light. But I'm struggling to see how it was actually racist like two of those links say? Sure it highlighted many differences between how the Himba tribe and the Moffat tribe live, but not really any more so than a documentary about life in a Brazilian favela might?The guardian aren’t happy.
ETA neither are any reviews apparently.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co....
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2019/10...
Etc
By those reviewers' standards, Crocodile Dundee must be some pretty disgraceful racist filth.
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