I love fantasy, it takes you to a beautiful
place where you can just get away from all the crap that we like to call ‘reality’.
Recently I read an article that really
knocked me silly as I tried to make sense of it. Now I’m sure by now most people
have either heard of or seen the new ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ teaser trailer
and nerd or not it’s a pretty intriguing piece of cinematic art that digs deep
and brings out the feels for most hard core fans, I would assume.
But while some are drooling over another Space
adventure film to blow their minds we get a few fools in the world trying to
make this brilliant fantasy world all tainted with the reality BS by bringing
in anti-equality nonsense into the movie.
What I’m referring to is the black storm
trooper that was shown on screen, briefly, running about. Apparently some of
the interwebs had an issue with that. Seriously… I mean, seriously?
On one hand I’m like, ‘take that South
Africa, racism is everywhere, we are not special and we should learn to get
over ourselves and grow’ but then on the other hand I’m like, ‘seriously, aren’t
we in 2014? What the hell world, grow up already and stop giving the aliens a
reason to leave us alone!’
It’s conflicting stuff.
But for real though, we live in such a
modern age where we can contemplate the creation of new, artificial, life but
we can’t even accept the lives of those next door us? How does that work
exactly?
The actor, John Boyega’s reaction was pure
gold though. Subtle in your face words that give me hope that even though
troublemakers that want to bring my beloved fantasy into the dregs of reality exist,
there will always be the better men and woman who can stand up and fight back
with class and dignity.
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