The girl is from Uganda. I can see the point of making such a movie. Everything isn’t purely racist. Their money, their movie. Don’t like it, start your own film company and make your own movie.
welcome to Free Republic. sorta.
There are some people with certain obsessions.
Makes FR look bad.
Inspiration can be a wonderful thing, but it ought to be HONESTLY sought and acquired. She is nowhere near the level, objectively, being claimed for her chess play. That does not mean her life story is not quite inspiring and impressive.
They could make a perfectly inspirational movie about her actual accomplishments in coming from such a difficult background to learn the self-discipline and mental rigor to play credibly in chess tournaments. What she has actually done is worthy of much credit.
However, when there are 91,050 active chess players ranked above her, including 5,421 players of the female persuasion, it is simply DISHONEST for the movie makers to pretend that she is some kind of prodigy setting the chess world on fire.... or that (as one hallucinating journalist wrote) “over time she reveals the makings of another Bobby Fischer”..... The movie makers and churnalists are creating a fantasy figure who does not exist, yet they pretend that this is the “real, true story”....
We don’t have to make our own movie(s) to criticize the inaccuracy and dishonesty in movies that are made by others.
Honesty and accuracy are valuable in themselves, qualities to be defended and indeed demanded.