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What was the point of the Black family?


They had no ties with Hanks family, plus they didn’t add anything to the history of the house. Diversity hire?

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Do they have to have some special significance?

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In a movie, every character must have some significance to the story.

Otherwise, they’re pointless.

They’re set decoration.

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Maybe because they inhabited the house?

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I was going to ask if there were any Blacks in the movie. The main cast on IMDb looked all White, so I had a glimmer of hope — but of course, I knew it was too good to be true. I knew they’d find a way to shoehorn Black characters into the story. That’s the 'D' in DEI: Diversity. You can’t make a movie about White people without shoehorning in blacks. That’s the 'I': Inclusion. A White person can’t have anything for himself anymore; he’s now required to share it with blacks. And that’s the 'E': Equity.

DEI is a cancer. The people behind it should be blacklisted, barred from employment in any company, in any industry. They deserve to be driven out into the shadows to live like the rats they are.

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The black family literally adds nothing to story being told. There’s even a scene where the black father tells his son what to do when a cop pulls him over.

They could have spent this time to better develop Hanks actual children but instead we get diversity nonsense.

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Well said.

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You can't win any Oscars without diversity hires.

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b i n g o

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They checked a box, that's it

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I have no idea, but all in all it was a good Forrest Gump reunion show.

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I thought it was too depressing. While it certainly has its upbeat moments, I would not overall call it a happy tale. The downbeats outweigh the upbeats. The characters almost always seem in strife and battling with the unhappiness in their lives. I think this was the wrong approach. Instead it should've been mostly cheery with occasional bouts of tragedy.

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For the most part it was what I expected. I tear jerker.

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I acknowledge that the Hanks family was the primary focus, but there were many stories that had nothing to do with them, including the Victorian aviator, the La-Z-Boy inventor, Ben Franklin, the Native Americans, and the freaking dinosaurs. Black people are currently the largest demographic in Philadelphia, and thus they are probably the most realistic depiction of what a family occupying that space in 2020 might look like. No hate, but you honestly might want to ask yourself why their story seems so out of place to you.

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Idk. What was the post of any of their stories?

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