Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
From the trailer, it appears to be a satire aimed at mocking how modern politics poisons literature and the writing process. The author has to hide who he really is and subordinate just writing an entertaining book to becoming someone espousing virtue signaling to be allowed to succeed.
I think the point is that long ago, he would have been allowed to just write entertaining books, but today you have to cater to every special interest groups and show your specific victimhood in order to be allowed by the publishing establishment to write entertaining stories. You are pigeon holed by your tribalism going into the literary process, because America no longer looks in terms of merit, but in terms of tribe and victim status, etc.
It looks like a successful satire to me, mocking a very real distortion of the literary process. Instead of rewarding merit for simply being an excellent and entertaining author, you now have to bow down to political correctness and appeal specifically to one of the "in" tribes, or you will not even get the opportunity to be an author, regardless of your talent, proficiency, and skill at telling exceptional stories.
And of course, while the movie focuses on writing books, you can extend this satire immediately to anything from Hollywood to music as it all applies today.
So what is "not to get"? I would watch this movie. It looks biting, timely, and spot on as well as very well done.
Once upon a time, back in the 60s and 70s, there were black singers with brilliant careers doing "mainstream" music.
Apparently in your lexicon "about race" is only about interracial interactions.
"Struggle porn" can be, and often is, purely intra-racial. The Color Purple is textbook struggle porn.
Of course, white women love themselves some struggle porn as well (witness the success of "A Handmaid's Tale").
Unless you’re a white woman, you really don’t have any authority to say what “white women” love. And not only are you making a huge generalization about whites women but you’re also making assumptions re: the demographics of the audiences of the series and films that you mentioned.
All sorts of people watch all sorts of things. Maybe you should rewatch American Fiction a few times so that the point of the film sinks in
Unless you’re a white woman, you really don’t have any authority to say what “white women” love. And not only are you making a huge generalization about whites women but you’re also making assumptions re: the demographics of the audiences of the series and films that you mentioned.
That's why there are companies that collect statistics on such things as program viewership demographics.
That's why there are companies that collect statistics on such things as program viewership demographics.
Yes, there are. Perhaps you should look at their findings.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
