Posted on 03/15/2018 5:15:46 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
Ava DuVernay, a black activist who directed a whole movie arguing that mass incarceration (a multi-racial problem) is a continuation of race-based slavery, suggested that racism explains why her latest movie, "A Wrinkle in Time," got bad reviews.
DuVernay gave a back-handed compliment to Vulture's Kyle Buchanan, who wrote about the "subtle, resonant" theme of the black main character's insecurity about her hair. "You were the only Caucasian journalist of any gender to see it, understand it and seriously ask me about it. Appreciate the chat, the sensitivity and the writing," the director tweeted.
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Hair is indeed a sensitive issue among black women, and the film captured both the insecurity and the beauty of actress Storm Reid's unique curly hairstyle well. Even so, this theme was a tiny fraction of the film, and in the context of the bad reviews, DuVernay's focus on this element seems a desperate distraction.
"A Wrinkle in Time" has a "rotten" 42 percent rating among reviewers on Rotten Tomatoes. Many mass-market films have negative reviewer scores but positive audience ratings, but not this movie. The audience rating proved even worse for "A Wrinkle in Time," at a tragic "rotten" 36 percent.
Race didn't drive these negative reviews — content did. ......
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If one of your film’s themes is the main character’s insecurity about her hair, your film has big problems. It also has The Orca - sorry, Oprah- which is strike two.
Oprah as god!
This is what happens when you take a perfectly good story and push it through the sieve of Disney political correctness.
“Hair is indeed a sensitive issue among black women...”
So this movie was about black women’s hair?
Shoulda been titled...”A Wrinkle In My Fro”
I thought that it was some sort of Oprah vanity projeject, right down to casting an Oprah look alike to play Meg, the central character.
Too many white people in the movie?
Loved the book.
I would never pay to watch oprah.
Would never watch oprah for free.
I agree, but the number of people who seem to think that the bad guy has a great idea is pretty rough. Especially since even in the movie, they characters see the “good” in his idea. Or maybe it is just the clips I am seeing, because I have yet to go see the movie.
That is gonna leave a mark!
Black, black, black, blah, black, blah, blah, blah, blah......
It is probably not demonic either... movie houses do world releases and much of the world is muslim...which would probably not like a christian themed movie in their movie houses...so they take it out.
Lose some US sales, but gain Indonesia as a viewing audience... I think it is a business decision that happens to coincide with their politics.
Hollywood did the same in the 1930s and kissed Hitler's ass, so as not to lose the lucrative German market.
One of my friends asked me to see it with him, so I reluctantly went. I have not read the book, but having seen the movie, I would say that it felt like an in-your-face preachy, New Age religion, childish fantasy. Absolutely horrible - couldn’t wait for it to be over.
And then there’s the political correctness...
You think Asians care about black people?
Think again.
I heard that Oprah was spewing out new age pablum in this movie; that she sounded like she said d on her old TV show when she was dispensing advice to her viewers.
Maybe having Oprah as the key figure who guides this young girl on her journey, wasn’t the smartest casting????
Maybe excising Christian/religious themes found in the book, from this movie version, resulted in a watered down mess of the message the book tried to convey????
Yes I have heard nothing but good things about Black Panther, including from conservatives.
You seem to be joining a chorus of conservative voices praising Black Panther. Glad it is doing well. :)
The book is about doing what you have to do to save your family. There is a lot of other things. Good and Evil. The difference between everyone being created equal and everyone being forced to be exactly alike. The deadly nature of hubris. But in the end it is about loving your family and doing what you have to do to keep them safe and bring them home.
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