"Go and be white people together"
I rolled my eyes when Loomis said that to Ann
shareI rolled my eyes when Loomis said that to AnnHa! Well...that was pretty much the reaction Ann gave too!
Are you white?
shareDoes that matter? Loomis was being ridiculous for suggesting that she liked him because they had skin colour in common.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FE9SLJ2Xoc
Not at all. The world of "Z for Zachariah" is post-apocalyptic, not post-racial.
shareI've mentioned this elsewhere, but I'm pretty sure the screenwriter borrowed the triangle material from the 1959 film The World, the Flesh and the Devil. In that movie (unlike the book), there is a black man and he does feel threatened by his white romantic rival. Unlike this movie, though, the three of them end up uniting as one.
shareLet me first preface this by saying I'm black Af lol but I think from lumis perspective it wasn't just about the skin color but I think a lot of times white people or people of fairer skin color are thought of as prettier or more handsome than darker people (of course not all the time) but lumis was probably feeling a little insecure I mean with calebs blue eyes an good hair an all so that's probably where that line "go be white together" came from. Just a place of insecurity that's all.
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