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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Replying to @JakeBakerSan @Dave_Hunter
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
Or are you taking this weirdly personally because you love movies that are designed to make white people feel better about racism?
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK @Dave_Hunter
Right. He reads the letter. The. Is disfigured. Then comes face to face with a man he brutally beat. I got the order of all the things that happen to him wrong. You're totally right.
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Replying to @JakeBakerSan @Dave_Hunter
And to be clear. I think the message that MM is after is well-intentioned and I get the point about the unending complexity of this. What im arguing is that he bungles it, royally.
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There's a good reason almost every POC critic is like "hey, fuck this noise."
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