Nah...that would be racist behavior. (Watch the ending again)
shareMy memory may be hazy, but I'm sure that I did see them give buttons to white men. What's with the victim card?
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I'm a white male, and if this is all we have to complain about, then it pretty much reinforces our privilege.
Save the whining for something that actually matters, k?
You're complaining that you didn't get a free pass to a world that DOESN'T EXIST... Let's take a moment to think about the entitlement of that... Let the fictional peeps have their fun; we get most of the advantages in the real world.
"Your mother puts license plates in your underwear? How do you sit?!"
Yeah how about that "racism"? Huh liberals, who are complaining about the lack of "actors of color." That ending was totally ridiculous. A kid playing a guitar on the street and a woman planting a tree on the sidewalk? Really? No people in labs or in engineering classes or something?
shareTo those of you complaining about the “deliberate exclusion of white men” given pins at the end of the movie, please watch those last scenes again. The new world order effort is led by a white man (Clooney) and a young white girl (Britt Robertson). The first person he recruits to lead this endeavor is a white man (McGraw). They amass a goodwill army to distribute pins to hopeful, bright, creative people who haven’t given up on the idea of a positive future and a willingness to help make it happen. Recipients who include men, women, adults, children, young adults, white, black, Asian, etc. In the field at the end, there are even more people than those we specifically saw finding their pins and some of those were white men.
So what exactly is your complaint? White men are well represented in that group and easily seen in that montage if you pay attention so the OP’s premise is clearly incorrect.
If the montage just went by too fast for you to see them represented the first time and upon a second viewing you realize your mistake, no harm no foul. We all make mistakes. It’s jumping to judgment before confirming our first impressions that causes trouble. If after viewing it again you still want to complain about inadequate representation of white men in this group of people leading the new world effort (again including the white men chosen to be in charge of the whole thing), then it sounds like your problem isn’t that white men aren’t included in that group of future world shapers (which they are) but rather that white men aren’t the majority of people in that group. Which means I’m sorry to say the prejudice is yours, not the filmmakers.
Oh and to the additional complaint that there were “No people in labs or in engineering classes or something?” and only “A kid playing a guitar on the street and a woman planting a tree on the sidewalk”, they showed a lot of people finding pins, including a woman involved in designing and building cars, a judge or professor, an artist, an academic working with equations, someone in the energy or utility field, a naturalist of some kind, a hiker, a dancer, another person in what looked to be an academic or professional field, and yes, a guitarist and a woman planting a tree. And if you look at the scene where they all emerge into the field and other people are revealed there as well, you’ll see a variety of attires representing different cultures and professions/industries. So I’m pretty sure most people are represented in some way. I hope you’ll decide to look again.
it sounds like your problem isn’t that white men aren’t included in that group
Well again, they are. Not just the Clooney character. Casey, who is young, is white and her dad is a white man. Both are helping to run the new program. And if you watch the final scene all the way through, you can see lots of people in the field, including white men. There's only so much room on a movie screen. They did a great job of representing a little bit of everyone. No one group, white men included, needs to be a majority to have a voice.
shareAhhh, ok then. That's why we didn't see any white males in the scene. There wasn't enough room to show them.
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Uh no. We did see them. There wasn't enough room to show lots and lots of them and still show everyone else as well. Look again. Everyone was represented.
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Yes that was definitely a social justice warrior ending if there ever was one. Totally excluded white men.
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