What to expect
The story is foundational to screen adventure, but its self-reliance fantasy is inseparable from colonial assumptions about land, labour, and Friday.
How to ease in
Watch the practical routines of survival while questioning the language of possession around them. Resourcefulness and colonial entitlement can occupy the same action.
Heads-up
A castaway attempts to survive on an island and impose order on an unfamiliar world in this British Defoe adaptation.
Making a shelter is a real achievement; deciding that survival grants ownership is a different claim. I try to keep those two ideas from sliding into one another.
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Making a shelter is a real achievement; deciding that survival grants ownership is a different claim. I try to keep those two ideas from sliding into one another.
— Momo
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