There's still plenty of movies with un-PC elements, but I'm talking REALLY politically incorrect and unironic. I feel like filmmakers are just too smart and self-aware now.
shareProbably on indie scenes. Big producers just won't finance controversial non-PC movies. They're in for the money, y'know.
shareI don't believe in the term PC. I see it is a phrase imagined by people who are put out by being told it's insensitive to put others down. Think about it, what constitutes political correctness for you? The definition is "the avoidance of forms of expression or action that are perceived to exclude, marginalize, or insult groups of people who are socially disadvantaged or discriminated against." So in short, not ridiculing people who already get a hard time.
Personally, I'm not easily offended and most things that are considered non-PC I have no problem with. Satire is not a form of expression we can afford to lose, nor is the ability to laugh at ourselves. Movies like Blazing Saddles are often derided for not being politically correct, but if you see the main theme of that film as being anything other than totally progressive (regardless of the amount of times the N word is thrown around) then I feel you may need a crash course in irony. It's exactly the reason I appreciate adult animation like South Park and Family Guy because they actively poke fun at the whole culture of being offended at everything.
However, if someone is looking for movies where minorities are ridiculed in a mean-spirited way, I would say those people have to ask themselves why they find that entertaining.
I have to say that everybody should have the right to feel what they feel, and that includes being offended by what might be hilarious to somebody else.
And I hate "South Park" so damn much (that show is just pure evil), and I don't care for "Family Guy" either. So I don't see a single positive thing about that kind of "humor".
What I'm trying to say is, do you have to belong to an ethnical minority to have the right to be offended?
Being offended is one thing, but to "cancel" stuffs you offended to is another. It's mob mentality. Witch hunting. And it hurts the bottom line.
When producers get no money from investing in a probable "cancel"-able movies or any works of art, they just won't be produced anymore.
Which is fine in the grand scheme of things, but weakens the dominance of Hollywood movies in the world scene, because some other countries might not consider what Americans think offensive, offensive.
I did not say that we should cancel anything from existing and being watched by adults. But if you make a controverial work, you have to understand that you will recieve criticism.
shareI agree. I was just adding the conversation, not debating your point. I think we should have freedom to be offended at anything we deemed so. But not to "cancel" them. Offensive things should still live on as long as they don't break the laws.
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