The Shawshank Redemption

The opening lines burn:

"By the time Stephen and I graduated in '73, half of South Africa was in flames. The police were shooting black kids like rabbits whilst the other half sipped piña coladas on their whites-only beaches."

South Africa was shitty place for blacks under Apartheid. Now there are over 100 laws discriminating against whites. Plus, it has become a shitty place for everyone.

The movie is a true story about white social justice warriors who went to prison for distributing anti-apartheid pamphlets for the African National Congress (ANC) and its paramilitary arm plus the Communist Party. They were trying to right injustices, but today guys like this would be smelly members of Antifa or BLM, terrorizing in *favor* of censorship, authoritarianism, and discrimination against whites. The drive for equality of outcomes leads to Communism, which leads to misery for all.

I would not say the movie is woke, because it seems to follow the historical events closely, whereas "woke" is all about claiming fantasized injustices in order to gain power and hand-outs. And who doesn't love a good prison break movie?