I'm not bashing The Woman King, I'm speaking generally of propaganda and PSA-style films or agenda-driven media that has been prevalent lately. So I'm not bashing a movie I haven't seen. I'm speaking generally of trends.
Diverse means, as you say, a variety of persons or viewpoints present in a particular venture. In this case, films. But that's not all it means depending on the context. "Diversity" is used as a buzzword in certain circles to mean "not white" or to refer to culture, not thoughts or ideas. I like diversity as you present it, but that's not how it is always used.
I don't like the stupid propaganda pieces put out by Hollywood at other times by other people either. I was never really happy with Michael Moore as a documentary filmmaker because he was making commercials, not documentaries - for instance. I also have nuance to my opinion. Some movies have PSA-type ideas in them - Miyazaki's environmentalism, for instance - that are part of wonderful films or done artfully enough that they don't bother me. Other times it's hamfisted but doesn't harm the movie. Some movies are entirely PSAs. Oliver Stone is a good filmmaker generally, but he gets too heavy-handed to be as good as he might be. Please don't assume that I only dislike this stuff when it comes from black filmmakers.
You are mistaken that I don't like diverse movies. BlackKklansman and Get Out, for instance, are wonderful. I have no problems with those movies, and if you hop over to those message boards, I'm on there defending those films against people who accused them of being "anti-white". I understand you're not reading my whole posting history before commenting, but you're not looking at the whole picture.
Now, if you did look to other boards here, you'll find a topic I started on this very film asking for unbiased opinions, the conclusion of which was that I said I'd probably watch the movie based on the sensible critiques of others.
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