New Netflix original series "Dear White People" coming April 28th.

Wasn't this a movie?

wasn't this an MTV movie?

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Wow!
That just looks awful.
Netflix really doesn't need to go there.

The movie wasn't as bad as I hoped it would be.

the problem with the movie is less about the SJW stuff and just general themes. They had wanted the movie to be 8 different things.

Half the time it was serious take on elite college campus politics and the other half it was satire on campus politics (maybe unintentionally, the ending makes it seem like they wanted to be a satire but didn't have the balls for it).

Ive said it before and will say it again, read a piece about six months ago saying the White Guilt theme is at an all time high and its not stopping anytime soon.

Said get ready for any civil war/civil rights themed movie you can think of to come out

I'll just quote my own review of the movie, which gets at a lot of the flaws of the film which I'm pretty sure the TV show will not deal with.

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It came off as the lowest stakes version of Do the Right Thing possible. Really, it's about narcissistic kids at an Ivy League school who complain that they aren't privileged enough despite being, perhaps, among the most privileged people on the planet.

However, there was a really good movie underneath the speechifying and the cardboard cutout villains (even Do the Right Thing's racists are well-rounded characters at the very least).

There's something to the fact that the character most willing to adopt "white culture" is the one who came from actual poverty. Coco is from the projects, so she doesn't have time for petty BS, she is not going back. It doesn't make her immune to racism, but it touches the true third rail of American life: class. She'll do anything to climb the social ladder, and I can't really blame her.

The movies best lines pretty much all come from Lionel, a gay, awkward, nerdy, undeclared sophomore who keeps getting excluded from every social group and dorm on campus. It's sad, but funny as hell. He's the one character in the movie, white or black, who is a true individual who does his own thing, and the campus pretty much unites to exclude him from everything. There is no place for an individual. I would have loved a more thorough exploration of that, though I did love his exchange with the Asian girl at the Black Student Union meeting:
"If there's an Asian student club, why are you here?"
"You have better snacks."

But the film's center is Sam, the militant mixed race girl fighting the system and hosting her Dear White People radio show. She finds her stridency and genuine outrage manipulated into her being a symbol in a fight, and she ends up leading a cause she doesn't really want to lead. She's a figurehead getting tosssed along with the storm.


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However, the movie had a perfect end point. She probably set the riot in motion but didn't participate at all. She didn't take part in the protest she was supposed to be the keynote speaker in because of her dad suffering a stroke. And at the end, she tells her white boyfriend that her dad is doing better, and she tells a beautiful story as a black kid getting taken to school by her white father and her pushing him away. It's a devastating emotional moment, and it shows how we put up walls around ourselves by relying to heavily on identifiers. She ends the story by, for the first time, taking her boyfriend's hand in public, not caring who sees. It's an honest emotional moment that gets to the core of the film: we're all people. We should identify as individuals not as symbols of our race.

And then they tacked on a cynical, terrible scene at the end of the film to take another potshot at the cardboard cutout evil president. So I don't think the director understands his own film. He really does identify with Sam's stridency and not her emotional honesty.

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The movie was funny.

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That movie was horrible.

Well said Baloo