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Opportunity missed because Hollywood is Political Correctness run amok


I originally meant for this to be an extremely long winded, bloviating post but Im going to cut my problem with this movie down to one scene.

When Hanks and his love interest, (a woman who looks more Indian then Saudi, but I diegress) finally meet up for a date it is in the back of a cab, and if its not clear yet to you the watcher that this is due to Islam inspired law, the movie then had a chance to show the ACTUAL ISLAMIC WAR on WOMAN in that scence, but typical regressivist PC infatuated Hollywood dropped the ball, once again.

The lead love interest is going through a divorce, while Hanks has already went through his, the movie had a great chance to show the dicotomy of how divorce is between our two cultures, but only ends with the female lead mumbling something about how hard it is to get divorced in Saudi Arabia. [end scene]

What needed to happen was for Hanks to then make the observation, in America men get screwed over in the divorce, while in Saudi Arabia it is the woman who are. Then she could have gone on and made it clear how much MORE worse it is for woman in Saudi Arabia then it is for men in America.

The WHOLE, ENTIRE movie is like this, it hints at the fact about how facist, mysognyist, and intolerant Islam is even through Saudi culture, but the movie EVERY, SINGLE, TIME PULLS BACK from making any kind of bold are truthful statement!!!

This is the problem with Progressive Hollywood, and they wonder why no one goes to see their movies anymore, the "Hardcore Henrys" of the world ARE NOT MADE IN AMERICA anymore

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