Best of the comments section is by a black woman who says that just as predictable as the movie being a white race fantasy is the inevitable high minded and oh-so-intellectual analysis that identifies the movie as a white race fantasy. I like how she turned the tables.
What’s funny and ultra postmodern about this is that it’s a liberal director who’s made the film and liberal critics who are finding the racial themes. Which expresses in a perfect nutshell the state of race in this country — namely that liberals are obsessed with it.
Exactly. The white liberal produces the film that he thinks is so progressive, and green, and most definitely anti-racist. Then the nonwhite liberal can come along and blasts the former liberal’s choice of subject matter. In the end they can both walk away feeling superior, which is all either really cared about in the first place.