Eskimo

(CW: There are brief discussions of sexual assault from about 48:00 to 54:00. There is also discussion throughout of a wolf being killed with someone’s bare hands, a real thing that really happens in this movie. Maybe skip this week if you don’t want to hear about either of those topics!)

This week’s film walks a very fine line between racist caricature of Inuit people, and empathetic portrayal of their average every day lives. It’s a film full of peaks and valleys, with some incredible nature photography interspersed with the worst rear projection you have ever seen. We talk about the film’s ultimately anti-colonialist message, how hard it is to see this one (unless maybe it’s on YouTube still?), and tangents about other unrelated films about bitter tea and hundreds of semiaquatic rodents.