Silence of the Lambs star Ted Levine says he regrets film’s trans depictions: “Having gotten aware and worked with trans folks, and understanding a bit more about the culture & the meaning of gender… It’s unfortunate that the film vilified that, and it’s fucking wrong. And you can quote me on that.”
Yes, it was a different time. Not defending it, just saying that people did not have the same insights and viewpoints as we have today.
Judging past people by today’s standards is not fair. You can judge their modern-day image by today’s standards, but not their past selves.
To a degree.
It’s not always so black and white. Take for example child marriages where little girls were betrothed to older dudes. Or how some cultures would treat people based on race, gender, etc.
Some things can, and should, be judged critically (holocaust, “comfort women”). Some things can get a pass (movies like Silence pf the Lambs).
TL;DR history should be judged on a case by case basis and we should avoid blanket judgement.
That’s a very good nuance
I’ll argue that Fatal Games is bad, was always bad, and forever will be bad, and it’s not because times were different. It’s because they picked a lazy bigoted trope to build the killer off of.