The problem with Wes Anderson

Thea at Shameless Mag really gets it right:

This is what really breaks my heart: Wes’ track record with women of colour. Anderson just loves pairing women of colour up with dorky white dudes, shortly after dorky white dudes have been dumped or rejected by white ladies. Even though Rushmore’s Margaret Yang is the fullest of all of Wes’ colour characters, she is still paired up with the loveable/hateable Max after Ms Cross turns him down. It’s the same story with Inez, the lovely Latin American hotel cleaner in Bottle Rocket.
[…] The interracial relationships in Anderson’s films are not radical. They simply reinforce racism’s most current and insidious form – they take cultural appropriation to the ultimate level by appropriating actual women of colour, a la Gwen Stefani.

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