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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels
I don't care about the morality of it, I just think it's weird to only cast white people when about 40% of the population isn't white. So it's obviously a decision he made.
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I put it down to stylistic choices in how some directors decide to narrate a particular story in their movies and want it to look, rather than casting issues concerned with inclusivity. David Lynch's movies aren't about real life in the same way that a movie like 'Ni By Mouth' is. Of course I can't tell if a director is secretly racist, a danger to women, children, queer foetuses etc. Nobody knows. I'm a big fan of Larry Clark's work, but I never had a problem with how some of the characters in his movies seem to or give you the impression of being quite homophobic, transphobic or whatever, no matter your ethnic background. In 'Kids' anyway. In his other movies LGBTQ people simply do not exist. I also think his movies are great in terms of ethnic representation in that the location they are filmed in is represented ethnically, I assume. And probably that same location has quite a few 'queer' characters in their midst who interact with those characters, but they are cut out. I put it down to Larry Clark's having to frame that narrative through how the characters live their lives, not his own personal views of them. A few years ago I've read an interview with Sarah Kane where she explained that the awful violence in her plays did not exactly come out of her imagination, but from reading a book about football's hooliganism she read because she was a fan of the sport. I'm never sure why movies have to suddenly be a political channel to present a just and fair society, since they can't do that anyway.