Dear White People

2014
PG
1h 48m

ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,2/10

27 k

MA NOTE

Tyler James Williams in Dear White People (2014)

A satire that follows the stories of four black students at an Ivy League college where a riot breaks out over a popular 'African American' themed party thrown by white students. With tongue planted firmly in cheek, the film explores racial identity in 'post-racial' America while weaving a universal story of forging one's unique path in the world.

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Satire Comedy Drama Romance

La vie de quatre étudiants noirs dans un collège de l'Ivy League.La vie de quatre étudiants noirs dans un collège de l'Ivy League.La vie de quatre étudiants noirs dans un collège de l'Ivy League.

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,2/10

27 k

MA NOTE

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Prix
- 13 victoires et 28 nominations au total

Anecdotes
Sam makes a student film that is critical of what she sees as white people's widespread fear of Barack Obama and titles it "Rebirth of a Nation." This is a reference not only to D.W. Griffith's notoriously racist 1915 Civil War movie The Birth of a Nation (1915) but also to something that filmmaker Spike Lee experienced while he was a first-year student at NYU's graduate film school. After being required to watch Griffith's film and objecting to the fact that his professors taught it only as a milestone in the technical development of cinema with no attention paid to its racism and its legacy of helping to relaunch the KKK, Lee made a student short film titled The Answer (1980) that responded to The Birth of a Nation himself. "The Answer" so offended many of his NYU professors that Lee was nearly expelled from NYU, but was ultimately saved by a faculty vote.

Gaffes
When Sam is in the dining hall and chastises Kurt for eating in their dining hall - just before she stands up; she closes her Macbook twice.

Citations
Professor Bodkin: ...Might I also remind you that I read your entire fifteen-page unsolicited treatise on why the Gremlins is actually about suburban white fear of black culture.
Sam White: The Gremlins are loud, talk in slang, are addicted to fried chicken and freak out when you get their hair wet.

Générique farfelu
The end credits include photographs of the real-life blackface (and brownface) college parties that inspired the film's climax.

Connexions
Referenced in Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner: Los Angeles (2019)

Bandes originales
45 Drum Break
Performed by The Co-Stars
Written by Neely Dinkins Jr. (as Neely Dinkins)
Vito Colapietro Courtesy of Atom Factory Music Licensing

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3/10

The first 20min was OK... I thought it was going to be funny. Then it gets laughably silly, campy and pretentious. The actors are caricatures of real people. At first you think in the next scene you'll suddenly find more depth and things will come into focus, but no... In the end it's got this sad "Stick to your own people, stop trying to pretend to be white/black if you're not" message which really makes me feel sad for whomever wrote this. What a dark little world they live in. The bits about colleges throwing black-face parties all the time are even a bit ridiculous. The movies based in some fictional ivy league school, but the examples they give are all of tiny colleges no-ones ever heard of. I'm not saying there isn't a race problem in this country, there is for sure. But what this movie is portraying is wildly exaggerated. This is the kind of movie the real racists watch and say "That doesn't happen! It's all made up!" and they're right.