That dog whistle was flawed characters, including a racist, being portrayed realistically and people feeling uncomfortable that the movie didn't go: RACIST BAD. Let's all bury our heads in the sand. Two people riding off to possibly kill an innocent man=redemption story. Okay.
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Replying to @JakeBakerSan
I have no problem with a movie not going RACIST BAD if it's at least contextualized it wasn't. And to the point, nothing really was.
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK
Everyone's problem seems to be thinking he's redeemed by the end and he's absolutely not. He's got a fucked up value system. He's starts to realize how wrong he's been. There's no such thing as pure evil. He can be racist AND care about solving the murder.
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Replying to @JakeBakerSan
I know that. I know MM knows that. I don't know if the movie knows that. That's the difference.
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK
I'm certain it does. Him and Hayes end the movie by clinging to this horrible revenge quest as some sort of redemption. It ends up in the air. They both know they're wrong. Whether they actually course correct or not is the question it ends on.
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Replying to @JakeBakerSan @FilmCritHULK
I think you're projecting your own values onto the movie, and allowing that to outweigh in your analysis what the movie actually does, dramatically. (Which is to give Dixon a series of irresistible feel-good redemption scenes.)
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Replying to @Dave_Hunter @FilmCritHULK
Even if you read Dixon being redeemed, which I don't agree on him and Hayes are reflections of the other and she isn't redeemed, what you're saying is, once someone does a bad thing, they don't deserve to ever come back from that? Even your weird view is super odd and narrow.
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Replying to @JakeBakerSan @FilmCritHULK
I have no real issue with the shape of his redemption arc. It's harrowing, courageous, and selfless, as it should be. It's a fantasy, though. It's not more realistic than an incompetent racist remaining an incompetent racist.
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Replying to @Dave_Hunter @FilmCritHULK
That seems like a good idea. Make a movie about black and white characters who learn nothing and don't change whatsoever. I'd hate to read your screenplays brother man. It's still a realistic portrayal of a character. He's still got a long, long way to go.
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No ones fucking arguing for black and white static. What im saying is its unearned. He starts becoming not an abominable racist sexist asshole because someone writes him a letter about being a detective.
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK @Dave_Hunter
Someone? You mean his father figure? His father figure who writes him a letter, which he reads after coming face to face with a man he threw out a window who he brutally injured, who still treats him with kindness? Did you take a nap during the middle?
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Replying to @JakeBakerSan @Dave_Hunter
he actually reads it before. Did you take a nap?
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