This HBO miniseries - Part I debuted last Sunday Part II debuts tomorrow both installments will repeat throughout December and January - blasts through the typical objections to films like this one (see above) by being just plain brusque about the vast differences between the rich tourists and the far poorer natives of the resort playland coast of Thailand. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it’s the same old imperialist “Westerners go to exotic places where poor brown people live and die all the time in awful ways, but now It’s Important and It Matters cuz it’s happening to Westerners,” but give Tsunami: The Aftermath a chance, will ya? For one, some of the Westerners are brown themselves, and some of the Westerners, brown and white alike, are explicitly trying to subvert Western imperialism, and all of them are suffering in extraordinary ways … just like the one poor brown guy whose home this is, where rich Westerners come for fun in the sun while he and his folk are out slogging fish in from the ocean or serving poolside drinks that cost more than they earn in a week at resorts where a night’s stay costs more than they earn in a year.
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