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.
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?
A little historical revisionism is good if it makes the chuds mald
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.
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.
Looking forward to all the reactionaries on YouTube doing a historical corrections video on how the Dahomey kingdom was the villains all along
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)
Taking a look at the #BoycottWomanKing hashtag on twitter it seems to be mostly black people disappointed that a movie is being made about someone who participated in the slave trade
Yeah seems the movie went into a lot of revisionism with not wanting to actually show a component of the slave trade (in which various African monarchies participated with the European slave trade for financial benefit). Honestly feel they should have gone full Django and done a, burn the entire institution of slavery to the ground, bit.
I wish more movies would do that, instead we get media that woobifies slave owners like Hamilton
There needs to be a similar sticker to the rated fresh sticker but instead be like "racists HATE this movie" since I don't think most non online peeps know what a chud is
