{"id":62460,"date":"2014-04-16T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=62460"},"modified":"2014-04-14T23:02:19","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T04:02:19","slug":"new-documentary-the-illusionists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/04\/16\/new-documentary-the-illusionists\/","title":{"rendered":"New Documentary: The Illusionists"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Writer and director Elena Rossini has released the first four minutes of The Illusionists<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0I’m really excited to see the rest. \u00a0The documentary is a critique of a high standard of beauty but, unlike some that focus exclusively on the impacts of Western women, Rossini’s film looks as though it will do a great job of illustrating how Western capitalist impulses are increasingly bringing men, children, and the entire world into their destructive fold.<\/p>\n

The first few minutes address globalization and Western white supremacy, specifically. \u00a0As one interviewee says, the message that many members of non-Western societies receive is that you “join Western culture… by taking a Western body.” \u00a0The body becomes a gendered, raced, national project — something that separates modern individuals from traditional ones — and corporations are all too ready to exploit these ideas.<\/p>\n

Watch for yourself (subtitles available here<\/a>):<\/p>\n