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Why did it receive only 47% RT score?

posted 4 years ago by lolkatz (498)
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The film is solid. It kept me at the edge of my seat, despite it's somber and restrained direction. It was the story that had me interested all the way. It made me feel angry about the Reconstruction, and the small subplot happening several decades in the future, in the Jim Crow era, I thought was spot on. And it was based on the true story and it didn't seem it tried to embellish it with contrived plot twists and additional set pieces.

[–] HarveyManFredSin (4877) 2 years ago

Possibly because of the 'white saviour' narrative, although my personal hunch is that modern critics hated it because of the triumphant scene at the end where the defiant free Black people register their votes for the Republican Party, despite the efforts of WHITE pro-Democrat, pro-slavery RACISTS to intimidate them. A lot of modern self-identifying 'intellectuals' and 'progressives' have a problem with HISTORICAL FACTS, especially *inconvenient* ones.