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This movie does not deserve the hate it gets


I figured the low rating (2.8 as of today) on imdb is undeserved, and I thought I'd check this movie out simply because it has got so much attention and has become a cultural topic. For the same reason I watched 'Sound of Freedom'.

I enjoyed most of this movie. This is satire, with a point. I'm not black, so I can't totally identify with the feeling of always walking on eggshells or being hyper aware of the way everyone around me views me. But I can be open to understanding it. This movie puts that in the forefront, and I assume that has made a lot of white people uncomfortable - ironically the exact point the movie makes - which led to this low score.

I'm not saying this movie is amazing. I would recommend people see it, and then have a discussion about it. If this movie got a score like 4.5-4.9, I would disagree but would not suspect rate-bombing. But this is not a sub-3 movie at all.

Some of the points made are a bit on-the-nose, and it overshadows the more subtle moments.

It's not amazing, but it's nowhere near garbage which is what many voices are calling it.

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it got review bombed by white folks that got their feelings hurt. they never gave it a fair chance.

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"I can't totally identify with the feeling of always walking on eggshells"

You must not be white.

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