I do not have the strength to read any of those 1 star reviews, but I'm guessing mayos be malding? Also funny but it seems that in contrast Rotten Tomatoes does not have the same issue with their verified user reviewing system.

  • CliffordBigRedDog [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The Woman King is a 2022 American historical epic film about the Agojie, the all-female warrior unit that protected the West African kingdom of Dahomey during the 17th to 19th centuries. Set in the 1820s,

    Damn sounds like some interesting slop, is it any good?

      • CommCat [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        yeah the only defense they give in having the movie take place in Dohomey is that the fictional leader character proposes to the King to stop slavery and instead sell palm oil, this is totally fictional. The producers and writers surely knew having this take place in Dohomey will be very controversial in the African-American community, they should've just created a totally fictitious kingdom with women warriors instead of try at historical revisionism.

        • CTHlurker [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          This is the newest type of neoliberal slob. Where we remove the artificial restriction on revisionist propaganda that made it so previously only white dudes could watch it, now every race and ethnicity can see themselves doing something wildly ahistorical which serves the interests of the neoliberal state at the moment.

      • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Looking forward to all the reactionaries on YouTube doing a historical corrections video on how the Dahomey kingdom was the villains all along

    • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      It's a pretty based anti colonial movie in which the main character leads her army against European colonizers (however as pointed out the kingdom itself participated very readily within the chattel slave system)