![]() Rather than explore the ethical implications of this technology, Altered Carbon focuses on a mystery. Wanted to share it, but not without pointing this out. I just stumbled over the review and was stunned. If you don't change the race of the source material but it's a white male and you cast a white male, that's especially problematic. If you change the race of the source material - an asian woman - to a white woman: That's whitewashing. In that adaptation, Scarlett Johansson played an Asian woman’s consciousness inside a white android. ![]() The creators would have done well to instead cast an Asian actor as the reborn Takeshi, avoiding the same whitewashing controversy that plagued last year’s Ghost in the Shell. That’s how it’s written in the book, but onscreen it’s especially problematic. The authors writes mostly about feminism in hollywood so that's obviously her thematic focus.įor viewers, the mystery may instead be why Takeshi’s sleeve takes the form of Swedish actor Joel Kinnaman (House of Cards) playing an Asian man living in a white guy’s body. The author talks a lot about diversity: Three of six paragraphs are either about diversity or about gender roles. Netflix's Altered Carbon Is Anything But Progressive Sci Fi | Time (Review from TIME, not New York Times. Don't discuss spoilers on non-spoiler tagged posts without using spoiler "code" >!Your Text Here!!Your Text Here! ![]() Don't put spoilers in the title of your post.ALTERED CARBON is set in a future where consciousness is digitized and stored in cortical stacks implanted in the spine, allowing humans to survive physical death by having their memories and consciousness "re-sleeved" into new bodies.
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