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I certainly expect this film to win Best Picture - at the Golden Globes, and the Oscars too. But that says more about those institutions than it does about anything else.

It will be impossible to separate the "politics" of this film from whatever other merits it has. Apparently, D. W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation and the Leni Reifenstahl film Triumph of the Will were wonderful cinematic "technical" achievements, but as they were sympathetic to the KKK and the Nazis respectively it's almost impossible to give either any praise without feeling "creepy."

I'll assume the present film is wonderfully scripted, acted, and filmed. But it's just not my cup of tea at all. I assume that's true of most people. Be prepared to be criticized as stupid red-state hicks, as the leftist elite takes the (probable) lack of popularity of this film as a badge of elitist pride.

Apparently, D. W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation and the Leni Reifenstahl film Triumph of the Will were wonderful cinematic "technical" achievements, but as they were sympathetic to the KKK and the Nazis respectively it's almost impossible to give either any praise without feeling "creepy."

Question: I remember watching these movies in film class and I don't remember anything being said about "Birth of a Nation" being sympathetic to the KKK...Do you have info regarding this?