it's also another movie about the anxiety of whether the white man will be heard or not
A stutter is a significant disability, so while he's a white male disabled person, no, it's not entirely a privileged narrative. (Fully admitting I am a bit defensive on this point due to Persons Dear To Me who struggle with the fairly significant disability of not being able to communicate in 90% of their life; as someone who's brainwiring winds up with the same fault for different reasons, I know how awful it is, and mine isn't an All The Time thing.)
Otherwise I entirely agree. I think what really touched me is that, the narrative of the White Male aside, Bertie was played as really genuinely human: frail, fallible, fucked up, loyal in strange ways, and very vulnerable, often in ways that aren't usually part of the White Male Narrative. (I admit it: I teared up at the "I'm a naval officer, it's all I know." bit.)
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Date: 2011-03-01 05:14 (UTC)A stutter is a significant disability, so while he's a white male disabled person, no, it's not entirely a privileged narrative. (Fully admitting I am a bit defensive on this point due to Persons Dear To Me who struggle with the fairly significant disability of not being able to communicate in 90% of their life; as someone who's brainwiring winds up with the same fault for different reasons, I know how awful it is, and mine isn't an All The Time thing.)
Otherwise I entirely agree. I think what really touched me is that, the narrative of the White Male aside, Bertie was played as really genuinely human: frail, fallible, fucked up, loyal in strange ways, and very vulnerable, often in ways that aren't usually part of the White Male Narrative. (I admit it: I teared up at the "I'm a naval officer, it's all I know." bit.)