1/2/2024 0 Comments Two worlds reviewsThe first half of the movie is mostly concerned with showing how Aigo is the alpha male of the Eskimo tribe. And yet Man of Two Worlds improbably clocks in at 96 minutes, 96 of the longest minutes ever produced for the screen. Watching the wolf from a Tex Avery cartoon attempt to navigate the rocky waters of self important interracial romance is a lousy way to spend an hour. When he sees a picture of a beautiful woman, he bugs out his eyes and sticks out his tongue. Every gesture is exaggerated, every syllable tuned and re-tuned wildly. An actor from Czech descent plays an Eskimo named Aigo in heavy brown make-up, and, according to Lederer’s interpretation of the character, Aigo is somewhat akin to a overenthusiastic circus clown. It’s deplorable, and, thanks to one spectacularly awful acting decision, an absolute dog to sit through.Įvery problem that’s not in the condescending screenplay comes from our lead, Francis Lederer. That may sound strange, but it’s true: Man of Two Worlds is about teaching those of “lesser” races their standing in the white world. While the pre-Code era gave us gems of racial understanding like The Bitter Tea of General Yen and fascinating screeds like Black Moon and The Mask of Fu Manchu that were unmistakeably racist but as yet nuanced, none of them are really in the same ballpark as Man of Two Worlds, a bizarre tale of a childlike, horny Eskimo and why he should be happy that he isn’t able to touch the porcelain beauty of a white woman. Sometimes old movies do not realize this. There is a difference between someone ethnic and someone mentally handicapped. “Eskimo or no Eskimo, he’s one of the most interesting fellows I’ve ever stumbled across.” “Pardon me, sir, but why make all this fuss about a blinking eskimo?” But don’t worry, kids, the white woman preserves her virtue! Our lead ditches his Eskimo wife to go to Europe and chase a white woman.
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