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Man Friday
1975 · Film · 115 min
Directed by Jack Gold
Englishman Robinson Crusoe, stranded alone on an island for years, is overjoyed to find a fellow man, a black islander whom he names Friday. But Crusoe cannot overcome the shackles of his own heritage and upbringing and is incapable of seeing Friday as anything other than a savage who needs Crusoe's brand of cultural and religious enlightenment. Friday attempts to share his own more generous and unashamed culture, but ultimately realizes that Crusoe can never see him as anything but an inferior being. With that awareness, Friday sets out to turn the tables on Crusoe.
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There was a footrace in the 1975 movie "Man Friday" that always made me think. The first man brags that he'd finished the race first.
But the second man says he ran with more joy -- with the maximum euphoria, fully embracing the act of running, celebrating the body's ability to speed....