{"id":549,"date":"2004-03-14T23:36:50","date_gmt":"2004-03-15T03:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2004\/03\/14\/on-the-mambo-of-self-hatred\/"},"modified":"2007-02-13T20:38:09","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T00:38:09","slug":"on-the-mambo-of-self-hatred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2004\/03\/14\/on-the-mambo-of-self-hatred\/","title":{"rendered":"On the mambo of self-hatred"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I saw Mambo Italiano<\/a> on dvd last weekend. It’s very funny and also quite sweet in a disarming, goofy sort of way. Angelo, the main character, is a true anti-hero hero. The movie has some interesting discussion about self-hatred (and conversely, pride) when Angelo’s first lover asserts his Italian pride by bashing Angelo’s supposed Italian self-hatred. Then there’s an interflashment (a sort of flash-back plus interruption and installment) of Angelo’s parents recounting their emigration to Canada — specifically Montreal, Province of Quebec: <\/p>\n

Scene: deadpan view of Mr. & Mrs. Angelo’s Parents. The Mr. says, We go to America, only they don’t-a tell us that there’s two Americas: the real America and the fake one, Canada. (Of course, they went to Canada.) And then they don’t-a tell us that there’s two Canadas, the real one where they speak-a English and the fake one, where they speak-a French. (And of course, they go to Montreal.)<\/p>\n

Mr. & Mrs. Angelo’s Parents actually have everything they could want for happiness, but it’s important to them to have this POV, which allows them to see everything in terms of self-bashing. It gives them the “right” to pass it on, and part of the movie’s magic is in how Angelo breaks that chain. Quite good. He is a determined asynchronous character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw Mambo Italiano on dvd last weekend. It’s very funny and also quite sweet in a disarming, goofy sort of way. Angelo, the main character, is a true anti-hero hero. The movie has some interesting discussion about self-hatred (and conversely, pride) when Angelo’s first lover asserts his Italian pride by bashing Angelo’s supposed Italian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}