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
And haha I was so waiting for you to insinuate that. I liked a movie about fucked up white people. Yes, secretly I love it because deep down I'm super racist. Definitely not because I'm not so lazy I just want to label people with bad beliefs the enemy and just move on.
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Replying to @JakeBakerSan @Dave_Hunter
No. You're not. What im saying is there's something super alluring about movies that are designed to make us feel better about it. I get caught in it too. And it's dangerous.
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK @Dave_Hunter
I just don't understand how this movie is supposed to make you feel better about it? It's clear that he's basically the villain of this movie. I hated feeling sorry for him. But it made me realize how human even racists are. It comes from somewhere.
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By the end when him and Hayes team up, you realize how far she has fallen. There's a small hopeful glint that maybe through each other's broken characters they'll try to find a way to be better people but it certainly doesn't confirm it.
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also sorry gotta run
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