I watched The English Patient three showings in a row when it first came out. Now, I wrinkle my nose in disgust whenever I see it on the television line-up. Michael Ondaajee, the writer whose book that movie was based, who I have met and spoken with a couple times, is “an anti-Colonialist.” It bothers me now that I have become enlightened
Cuckoo’s Nest and Amadeus were both well made movie with serious honesty issues.
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Cuckoo’s Nest slandered the mental health field and was largely responsible for the subsequent de-institutionalization of mental patients.
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Amadeus slandered a great musician, Salieri, who was actually a friend of Mozart.
It makes no sense for Ondaatje to be anti-colonialist given his life and career.
He’d have done nothing and who knows what he’d be if not for colonialism.