Thursday, November 20, 2008

The _____ Five Minutes of Film Ever

Originally Published 11.20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI9OYMRwN1Q

"The thing about my baby," Michael Jackson explains,"it don't matter if you're black or white." In what must be the most inspiring five minutes of film ever recorded, the 1991 music video to his platinum hit "Black or White," Jackson dances across the globe, examining intolerance and race relations. From the southern plains of Africa to the snowy steppes of Russia to his own backyard, the racial dichotomies of "black" and "white" are essentially capitalistic, and as suggested by Jackson's imagery and clever storytelling, ultimately solvable only by the open minds of future generations.