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The Drawback of Woke-ness -- SPOILERS


I know it's a topic that creates heated arguments here, and I hope this thread doesn't devolve into that, but here's my opinion...

I'm all for diverse casting, and I don't care what race an actor is unless it's somehow contrary to the role. HOWEVER-- where the woke agenda/ diverse casting / modern left-wing politics / whatever you want to call it ruins films is very apparent in Glass Onion.

Within minutes of the movie starting, simply based on who directed the film and the cast that showed up, I knew that whatever happened, regardless of clues, hints, red herrings, whatever, the white male who wasn't the detective was going to be the killer/villain and the black woman would use her cunning and poise to thwart him. And, spoiler alert, that was exactly how it went down.

It ruined what would have otherwise been a fun whodunit, because the conclusion was predetermined. All that was left was to try to figure out how it went down, but an important element of the mystery was removed.

Again-- I have no problem with the casting, it's the implementation of the cast that is the problem.

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She couldn’t have done it without the help of a white man

So … not so woke

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a gay (since the previous film) white man. so woke.

also we don't know if "they" identify as white and/or a man.

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That's not the point. What I'm saying is that before the film was even underway, the conclusion was already obvious. You can debate "woke or not woke" until the end of time, and that's great if that's your thing, but all I care about is if it's a good film or not. When I know the outcome of the mystery based on the race of the actors, for me the film has failed. Call it woke, call it whatever you want, it's immaterial.

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Missing the point was "their" objective

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Same problem with the recent Scream films. You know who the evil killers will turn out to be, and who will survive due to minority armour. Woke isn’t just distastefully racist and sexist, it’s boring.

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I love that term "minority armour". Kinda like Obama's entire presidency?

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Yes exactly. Obama was able to drone countless innocent people with impunity thanks to minority armour, while at the same time winning a Nobel Peace Prize for being black. He even had an innocent American citizen blown up in a cafe because he was related to a terrorist leader.

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Yeah. This movie is trash. I now see in hindsight it would always be Chris Evans just as it was always going to be Ed Norton. It's always the white man! Always! He's going to have a hard time casting these in the future if he keeps it up.

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