Not just whistling Dixie!

[dysfunkshunell1.livejournal.com]

This is the discussion post for Episode 9x09 - "Strange Fruit". Watch out for SPOILERS in the comments.


Thanks to full_metal_ox for making sure the new episode discussion thread is posted! :)

Comments

[full-metal-ox.livejournal.com]

This episode was far less about whodunit--or, as ruralstar points out above, about the gore--than about the gradual, terrible, and inexorable unfolding of a tragedy; that Strange Fruit crop has roots deep in American culture, and its corrosive genes continue to taint our soil.

(And note the UNSUB's checking off successive Shit-White-People-Say-To-Black-People bingo squares: Black best friend? Check. Black love interest/spouse? Check. Abject confession of racism from one's ignorant youth (but one's a better person than that now, honest!)? Check.)

[mycha-kk.livejournal.com]

I agree with you completely. I truly believe it was about tragedy of all characters including Rossi. And that's why I believe the mutilation scene was shot the way it was. To get across the roots of the tragedy. I have to confess I'm fairly young and from Europe and I only know facts from my history lessons and what I've gathered from other sources. While intellectually I knew how it was back then, the mutilation scene brought across the issue on a different level. It could be said that it was overdone but I don't agree. I think it needed to be done that way because at least for me it gave the opportunity to see and thus kind of participate in the experience of that tragedy.