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MAY 10, 2009
'Goodbye Solo' FILM
'Goodbye Solo'

Ramin Bahrani's latest film, Goodbye Solo, is set in Winston-Salem and involves a Senegalese taxi driver and a white American man. The movie is not about the collision of their cultures. What matters in this expertly directed movie is the existential situation of being between hope and despair. The taxi driver is hope; the American is despair. The driver has a good reason to hope (he is young, about to become a father), and the American has a good reason to despair (he is old and alone). From these two positions, Bahrani develops an emotional language for a society that has been totally transformed by the processes of globalization. (See Movie Times: thestranger.com/film.) by Charles Mudede

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Pls. stop with the constant misunderestimation of globalization. Globalization brought Europeans and a few Senegalese to the Carolinas in the late 1600s and the 1700s, too. Then globalization determined that area's economy (check out the name of the city in this movie, hint, hint). And searching back through the last 200 years, I don't think this area every got unglobalized; so it's just wrong to say "gobalization" has now "transformed" anything in the Carolinas. Globalization made the freaking Carolinas. Carolina ain't the name of a Native American, is it? Pls. stop downplaying the force and importance globalization which has been the dominant force nearly everywhere in the world since the dawn of history (and before; just ask the Neanderthals). Thank you.
Posted by PC on May 10, 2009 at 11:37 AM · Report
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i'd like to see this movie, but according to the film times, it's not playing anywhere. what gives?
Posted by Finish Tag on May 10, 2009 at 4:04 PM · Report
reverend dr dj riz 3
at the varsity.. 4:40 , 7:10, 9:10..
thank god for the innernets
Posted by reverend dr dj riz on May 10, 2009 at 4:19 PM · Report

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