The body and soul were two elements I found to be very connected in the
films Black Girl and So Angels Also Die. Both main characters
feel a very physical and spiritual longing for their homeland or what they
believe to be their homeland; when several individuals recited a poem about
Africa in So Angels Also Die it felt
as if they were suffering from not only suffering from an aching soul but as if
they were amputees aching for a lost limb as well. Diouna commits suicide because she cannot
bear the separation; however, her pain seems to translate into a caged animal that
has been locked in a zoo surrounding only by imitations of her natural
environment.
Separation by distance and spirituality were again displayed
in So Angels Also Die in the main
characters mixed raced children. Their
mother is a white French woman. They are
automatically a part of two worlds where they may never be wholly
accepted. I do not know if colorism is
prevalent in Europe but I cannot imagine that though those two children will be
able to have a clear vision of who and what they are.
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