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Over americanized

posted 9 years ago by Dr_Saf_Wartofsky
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It was overall a good film, but overamericanism hurt the film for me, how many times did they say "Oh, this is so american", "America is great". And the worse part of it all is that it also bashes other countries, the main character is from Nigeria, but the character completely refuses to go back there, when he probably had a family there, as he was raised there. With the money and the titles he had, he could have lived a good life in that country. The one that bothered me the most was the hating on Mexico's med schools, let me tell you that there are very well recognized med schools in Mexico.

[–] Airman87 9 years ago

main character is from Nigeria, but the character completely refuses to go back there, when he probably had a family there, as he was raised there. With the money and the titles he had, he could have lived a good life in that country.

I've always found it inane that, after America willingly gives scholarships to people from third world's for Universities, America happily sends them back/lets them go back.

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[–] MuchToBeGratefulFor 9 years ago

And the worse part of it all is that it also bashes other countries, the main character is from Nigeria, but the character completely refuses to go back there,

That's the "worse" part for you? Guess what, it wasn't just the character in the movie, the man in real life chose to stay in the US. So the movie is bad for portraying what the real person actually did? He IS very pro-American. That was part of the point. He so believed in the goodness of America that he naively believed that the facts about CTE in football players would be warmly received.

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[–] fairy_depp 9 years ago

Exactly - The man stayed in America in real life so it would be ridiculous for the film to portray something different.

[–] sebu1-1 9 years ago

Yep. The speech as a witness at the beginning was a warning. It had this majestic music playing in the background. Honestly, that was so lame and Peter Whatshisname needs to have a word with himself. And they kept repeating it during other "inspirational" scenes. All that was missing by the end was the American flag being saluted, a couple pigeons and the national anthem. Ruined the whole thing.

Why do they still have to do this glorifying "God bless America" thing, it's so obvious and so very embarrassing. I mean, for one, look at the state of USA today. The place is a debt burdened land of nightmares filled with bureaucrats and self righteous idiots. And I mean real idiots. Idiots you wouldn't believe could possibly exist.

But, despite the above, I didn't mind the first two thirds of the film. The rest was like they had suddenly gotten bored with the whole concept of movie making and left finishing off the project to Will's pet dog.

[–] omoxus 9 years ago

Have any one you actually heard Dr Omolu speak during interviews. He was very pro
American dream.

https://youtu.be/_w7tcILcHKo

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