This is probably not new- yet Alright so they say that what you consume is what can affect you. I know budget, funding and lots of things kind of narrow directed stories down- but nobody wants to see something they might have seen before, or might have heard about- parents, family or people fighting and yelling- and i've noticed when it comes to native movies- they usually don't hold back on trauma. Is it just me or are like are you tired of people seeing a movie and hyping it- and then you just finish it with a tight feeling in your throat or a tight feeling that makes you pissed. People might praise it authenticity- yet it's usually non-native people.
Genuinely where are the creative movies where it isn't Indigenous peoples acting as mentors, as educators for non-indigenous audiences- were not even the comic relief - and a lot of people from lots of communities are genuinely funny. I hope that in a few decades- there is a movie for every genre- and it doesn't have to represent the entire diaspora, or even represent the people who the characaters are portraying. I'm still learning- yet we have a right to be creative, a write to be funny, a right to not have everything be what's wrong with us or look their victims yet their in a good mood and smiling. Not every movie has to portray us in a way that's like damn they didn't hold back or even damn it's not that deep. I hope we can have more creativity and not get permission to be any such way. I don't think Reservation Dogs should be the ceiling for creative shows.