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I went to see Knives Out last night. Logistical Notes:
- Cinema: Boogie place, reclining seats, full service eat-as-you-watch restaurant.
- Tab: One Water, One Dr. Pepper, Loaded Tots, Pretzel Bombs, Fish and Chips.
- Marta (main character-ish) is a total babe.
It's a great movie that is simultaneously smart, dumb, funny, and entertaining, perhaps the perfect holiday excursion. But Its political undertones aren't very subtle - a greedy, rich, and white family loses their inheritance, including the family house, to a person of color (Marta) whose heart is pure. The final scene is of Marta standing on the balcony alone as she looks down at the family whose fortune she as just inherited. She is brown, they are white. She is in power, they are not. The power dynamic that has characterized America for hundreds of years is turned upside down.
The National Review put up a review of the movie:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019...woke-white-left-annihilation-fantasy/#slide-1
The author states, "Rian Johnson has made an annihilation fantasy for the woke white Left." If this isn't the conservative literati's version of being triggered, I don't know what is. The author's thesis is that the movie triumphantly proclaims that people of color are in fact taking over America's culture and politics. Is it really, though? Marta isn't annihilating anyone in the movie, and the family, even without their inheritance, will be just fine.
Why isn't Hollywood allowed to make movies that scrutinize race relations without a white guy with a degree from Penn State claiming the stories are actually about genocide?
- Cinema: Boogie place, reclining seats, full service eat-as-you-watch restaurant.
- Tab: One Water, One Dr. Pepper, Loaded Tots, Pretzel Bombs, Fish and Chips.
- Marta (main character-ish) is a total babe.
It's a great movie that is simultaneously smart, dumb, funny, and entertaining, perhaps the perfect holiday excursion. But Its political undertones aren't very subtle - a greedy, rich, and white family loses their inheritance, including the family house, to a person of color (Marta) whose heart is pure. The final scene is of Marta standing on the balcony alone as she looks down at the family whose fortune she as just inherited. She is brown, they are white. She is in power, they are not. The power dynamic that has characterized America for hundreds of years is turned upside down.
The National Review put up a review of the movie:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019...woke-white-left-annihilation-fantasy/#slide-1
The author states, "Rian Johnson has made an annihilation fantasy for the woke white Left." If this isn't the conservative literati's version of being triggered, I don't know what is. The author's thesis is that the movie triumphantly proclaims that people of color are in fact taking over America's culture and politics. Is it really, though? Marta isn't annihilating anyone in the movie, and the family, even without their inheritance, will be just fine.
Why isn't Hollywood allowed to make movies that scrutinize race relations without a white guy with a degree from Penn State claiming the stories are actually about genocide?
