Lovely essay on Egoyan's Exotica:
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From the onset cultural hybridity is the landscape of this film. The signs of border crossing and cultural mixing are everywhere. Right away it is obvious that we are not in the good old U.S. of A. Strip joints in this country do not play Middle Eastern music, no matter who owns them. The culture we watch on Egoyan’s screen, where difference is tolerated and border crossing more a norm than a contrived spectacle, has been created by immigration, mingling, and integration. It is a fact of life, not a fantasy. The mundanity of this cultural mixing is marked by the absence of any heavy-handed focus on difference.
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