All the Light We Cannot See
The story of Marie-Laure, a blind teenager, and Werner, a German soldier, whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.
Wokeness: 40%
Overall Score: 50%
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Michaels
Maximum improbability
The maximum improbability drive was employed in this mini-series to pull your heartstrings. Aside from being implausible, it's quite enjoyable. Supposedly, the book is better, but I have not read it.
There is a black museum worker, apparently #2 in charge. For WWII era France, I doubt that would be the case.
Created: 12-05-2023
JustEntertainment
A touching story dripping in woke
While wartime stories are usually heartwarming and inspiring in some way, the way the producers / directors took over this film ruined the message of hope and replaced it with the heavy salt of feminism. What could have been a charming young heroine is an in insufferable know-it-all akin to that awful Rey skank in what-shall-not-be-called-Star-Wars - meaning, she has no story arc, no discovery, no learning, and no flaws.
All other female characters are exactly the same - unsympathetic and unrealistic stoics, backhanding men with every quip of their devil tongues, blank and detestable.
I'm a chick, but feminist films like this irk me to no end.
Every time the brat comes on the screen I wish the worst for her, my sympathies lying instead with the bruised, battered, and broken Nazi boy who has far more complex and elegant an arc than the know-it-all Mary Sue.
What ruins the series further is the constant predictive powers of the magical characters (talking plenty about things that haven't happened yet, like the Holocaust ovens being revealed, or the treatment of prostitutes after the war). The Nazis - save the lead boy, who was forced into the army against his will - all have the same exact boring character too, a cookie-cutter remake of Indiana Jones. They're all so similar I can't tell them apart, exacerbated by inescapable uniform. The inhuman monolith that is The Enemy.
It's funny how socialist directors try so hard to dehumanize a group of people, mostly in an attempt to other them and pretend they are not peddling the same darn thing.
At the moment (though not through the entire story and not sure I'll get there), besides the feminism there is a little forced diversity casting, with the incumbent head professor at a museum in Europe during the 40's being a black guy. Naturally, white people all are all evil, which is kind of realistic seeing as it's Europe, but the highest position in the room being black? Yeah, no. I'm black and I'm not stupid enough to believe that.
There are at the moment no LGBTPedophiles or trannies.
No politics, either, no modern lectures on TDS, racism or privilege.
But this is more than a chick flick - this is a sledgehammer designed to crush men's humanity right off and replace it with a world of Mary Sue -ism.
Created: 01-29-2024
