Txt? Maybe. One second. The uniform suggest one (1) an American soldier among an all British contingent…
The clip is one second long., exactly 1 (one) second long: 01:03:37 – 01:03:08.* It is featured in the critically acclaimed movie “Wonder Woman”. It has been praised for being groundbreaking in many aspects and especially in terms of equality? It is an American film directed by an American woman. The perspective looks the same to me.
It is fiction? Yes. When will you realise that it is not a question of privileged gender? When will you realise that the real question is another altogether?
Please, try a little bit harder. What about general human rights? Look beyond gender and tint (color is just not working for me). Words. 1970. My father was a grown man then.
380000 were sent from the US and 160000 Africans fought for France alone. The “Colonial” troops were close to a million (1000000) head strong. Men taking part in the first World War, Africans and Asians, they were a very long way from home, fighting in a war that was not theirs to fight to begin with. One hundred years ago. Why did they do that? Why did they sacrifice their own lives in a fight that was not theirs? Codex.
A man called Léopold Senghor was one of them. He fought in the first World War for France. He survived and became the first president of the independent state Senegal proclaimed in 1960.
He was part of the Senegalese tirailleurs (French: Tirailleurs Sénégalais) infantry and president, minister, poet, member of l’Académie française etc.
* It was not my intention. I just watched the film and I did not do a frame-to-frame analysis. I simply made an observation, that’s all. No big mystery to be found. One second would be 24 frames or something like that. Equality?