Kiran Nayak
Aug 8, 2017 · 1 min read

I’m not sure if non-white faces really warrant an explanation. Art, especially historical adaptation, can take liberties when it comes to explanation and exposition. Even an alternative-history work, like The Man in the High Castle, doesn’t give you a full account of the second world war, or account for why you see so many Japanese faces — because the creators assume that the viewer has a baseline knowledge of the events that transpired during WWII.

Including Indian or other racial groups in the war wouldn’t necessarily have made the movie any more complex, but shows that the movie industry is steadily dropping it’s standards for what it thinks the audience already knows about its history.

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