Leftists have completely lost the plot — literally. Every time a new blockbuster film is released, the discourse predictably devolves into a debate over its problematic themes. This is nothing new; leftists have been highly critical of media depictions of people and cultures for ages, but this is happening with greater frequency even as films spoon-feed the audience a political subtext that is overtly critical of the themes they’re condemning. We see an ironic backlash, moralising about the harmful stereotypes and tropes the film “promotes” even when these depictions are by their very nature, self-critical.
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