The Social Monochromy of Film

The language of love is the most universal language of all, and yet the majority of the romances we see on film are lived by light-skinned characters. Hollywood is a notoriously and overwhelmingly white industry, where the idea of charm and beauty is generally linked to a paler skintone, and while cinema is widely considered the most powerful means of visual art form we have, it doesn’t always portray the world for what it really is.