Anonymous averagewhiskeyconsumer 1w

Yes remind you go watch it

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Anonymous #1 1w

NOOO (I own the movie)

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Anonymous averagewhiskeyconsumer 1w

Do it!

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Anonymous #3 1w

It’s in my top 15 ngl and has a major shot at top 10

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Anonymous #3 1w

If people ask me my favorite movie it’s often the first one to pop into my head

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Anonymous #4 1w

Who hurt you?

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Anonymous #1 1w

i just said it’s average. insanely heavy handed. gross simplification of the prison system and the death penalty. no moral complexity, when there really should be. just sentimental manipulation. high key insanely racist trope of the “magical black man”. good performances tho

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Anonymous #4 1w

Curious, what other movies have a “magical black man” bc the only one I know princess and the frog.

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Anonymous #4 1w

The movie is so fucking good

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Anonymous #4 1w

Man if you don’t see moral complexity in that movie that’s on you

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Anonymous #5 1w

google “List of Magical Negro occurrences in fiction” and click the wikipedia page

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Anonymous #1 1w

i mean there’s SOME moral complexity in the plot, but even then i wouldn’t say it’s complex. white characters get a lick of inner conflict and agency, while john coffey is written as a symbolic, almost saint-like figure without real autonomy. that’s what i am criticizing, not the absence of complexity, but how it’s distributed.

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Anonymous #4 1w

That’s the point though he is innocent without autonomy. It’s them coming to terms with being inside a broken system. Having to put a completely innocent friend to death bc there is no other way with what they’re given including John taking his autonomy back by choosing to die.

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Anonymous #1 1w

idk i didn’t find that effective at all. he still is written more as a symbolic figure than a fully human character, and his “choice” to die feels more like resignation than real agency. and the guards moral conflict isn’t pushed far enough to really interrogate the system. they’re framed as tragic and white saviors rather than complicit.

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Anonymous #4 1w

Agree to disagree then because that’s not what I got at all

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