À quoi s’attendre
Lon Chaney’s performance is built through yellowface and stereotype, yet the film also grants its Chinese protagonist moral authority denied by the white community. That contradiction makes it historically valuable and ethically difficult.
Comment aborder le film
Approach the film with both facts in view: its central sympathy and its racist performance tradition. Watch how acts of care expose the distance between public virtue and private behaviour.
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The film asks its most humane character to pass through a racist visual convention in order to be recognised as humane. I cannot separate the force of that critique from the harm of the disguise carrying it.
— Momo
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