If the Cultural Purity Police (CPP) had their way, they would brand British curry as theft, but every cuisine consists of an infinite number of borrowings and travels, sometimes stretching back millennia.
Excerpt: Imagine the iconic figure of the young woman holding up a little black dog. Consider the impressionistic lushnesss of the image. Now imagine that someone has come along, cut out the woman, and replaced her with a photographic image of a woman with a dog.
We’re not obliged to prop up faux feminism: We can and should expect films that actually make strong feminist statements embedded in excellent writing and character development.
