Response to Daughters of the Dust

With the advancement of the society and the improvement of people’s well-being, individuals have more and more ways of entertainment in their daily life. Going to the movies is one of the popular forms of relaxing, and many people, especially the young people, are fond of various kinds of films. Daughters of the Dust is one of the famous films. However, this movie differs from others in its relationship with the conception of independent cinema and the evolving of the African Americans.

Daughters of the Dust is an independent cinema, and it records the evolution of the African Americans and promotes the development of the independent movies. Independent film, the kind of cinema which does not belong to any film company or group, does not aim at earning profits. In other words, the independent cinema has no relationship with the commercial financing. As a result, there are more possibilities that this kind of films is not influenced by the economic factors and it may reflect the truth more effectively. The author, director, and producer of Daughters of the Dust is Julie Dash. What’s more important is that this film is not affected by the financial factors and it faithfully reflects the life of the African American women in history as well as in culture. Consequently, this film is undoubtedly a wonderful independent film for it is really independent. In the modern times, there are a lot of commercial and economic factors that influences the performance of the films. It is of great importance for the independent films to put forward and reflect more truths to the pubic. In addition, this film records the evolving African Americans. The whole story is narrated by an unborn child, which makes the plot vivid and truthful. According tooo the narration of a child who is unborn, the miserable life of the child’s mom who is raped by a man is implied (Julie). Besides, the child also narrates the girl who ignores the traditional customs and the rejection of her parents. She just wants to leave the island where she has been living since she was born. Above all, Daughters of the Dust records the life of three generations of the African-American women, and it describes well the evolution of the African Americans.

Based on the above illustrations, it is quite obvious that Daughters of the Dust is a wonderful independent film. On the one hand, this movie performs well in its role as an independent film, and it promotes the development of the independent cinema. On the other hand, this film records the history or evolution of the African Americans.