Netflix has decided that they can do some sort of social activism in every single one of their productions, so maybe I should not have been surprised by the not-so-subtle dig at white people in Leave the World Behind, which tries to be slick and modern by leaving viewers hanging on the edge of a cliff at the end. (Sorry: you don't get credit for being a genius when in fact you were simply too lazy to finish the film.) In some ways, this looks like the first episode of what was meant to be a series but then lost its funding.
One issue worth noting is that every white person in the film is portrayed as kind of horrible (even the daughter, who is obviously half-white--and so correspondingly half-horrible). The only unequivocally good person is played by Mahershala Ali, a totally black dude. Nearly everything in the film is racialized, and gratuitously so. It's almost as though the people who created this film cannot stand the thought of the United States finally leaving racism behind, for example, by electing to the highest political office of the land... a black man. And to do it twice!
Guess what? This light as a sledgehammer production was brought to you by... the Obamas!
One issue worth noting is that every white person in the film is portrayed as kind of horrible (even the daughter, who is obviously half-white--and so correspondingly half-horrible). The only unequivocally good person is played by Mahershala Ali, a totally black dude. Nearly everything in the film is racialized, and gratuitously so. It's almost as though the people who created this film cannot stand the thought of the United States finally leaving racism behind, for example, by electing to the highest political office of the land... a black man. And to do it twice!
Guess what? This light as a sledgehammer production was brought to you by... the Obamas!