Quote Originally Posted by Reddish Mage View Post
That this movie is imitating real world events, makes use of real stereotypes and racial dynamics is obvious, and is mentioned both by the many critics and the few outliers like (Variety) that give this movie positive remarks. If every professional critic sees a message, I’m willing to say there is one there.
Sure, you're just not willing to say what it is.
Changing a few characteristics here and there do not remove the obvious sources of inspiration or strip out its meaning. People will naturally make all sorts of inferences about Orcs simply by seeing some of this imagery.
What inferences? And are they right or wrong? I don't understand.

I get if you come into the movie with your own prejudices and feel like those prejudices are either supported or challenged. But... I'm just not seeing what messages the movie is supposedly giving. The only message I can see would be "there are good and bad people of all types". I don't think that's particularly controversial or even worthy of making a movie about. It's like... who doesn't know that? Practically everyone knows that.
Also there is a contradiction embedded in the analysis of this movie as cop movie with no racial signfiicance, and then immediately pivoting to contrast it with the noxious political significance of a Star Wars Episode VIII.

I genuinely cannot see the political significance of Star Wars VIII, and especially not how it resembles a sermon about being PC. Are you referring to its racially diverse cast? If so, how does this movie, which also features a diverse cast, avoid a similar message of PC-ness, especially as you claim there is no special political significance to what Bright does with its racially diverse cast?

Or does Star Wars TLJ contain politically-racially charged content, aside from diversifying its cast, in contrast to that of Bright, which does not?
http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/sta...nist-feminism/

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture...nist-star-wars

https://www.theguardian.com/film/201...n-bechdel-test

https://hellogiggles.com/reviews-cov...wars-feminist/

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood...isten-to-women

https://moneyish.com/ish/why-the-las...ure-is-female/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/...men/943736001/

Some light reading for you.

Look, I don't like TLJ because it's a bad movie. That it made all of the men failures and all of the women heroes is icing on the cake on a movie that already made a lot of inexplicably bad choices.

I'm not seeing an explicit message in Bright. I don't walk away thinking "cops are wrong" or "black people are wrong" or anything of that nature. I walked away from the movie wondering where the elf girl went in the pool, and how the dragon fits into the world, and if they'll expound on the history in a potential sequel.

Help me see what you're seeing. What am I supposed to take away from this movie?