A Small Light
Risk everything.
Twentysomething Miep Gies didn't hesitate when her boss Otto Frank came to her and asked her to hide his family from the Nazis during World War II. For the next two years, Miep, her husband Jan, and the other helpers watched over the eight souls in hiding in the Secret Annex. And it was Miep who found Anne’s Diary and kept it safe so Otto, the only one of the eight who survived, could later share it with the world as one of the most powerful accounts of the Holocaust.
Wokeness: 100%
Overall Score: 100%
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Michaels
Those who control the past control the future
A homosexual character appears in the first five minutes, so you know it's gonna be woke. Worse, it's a historical character that they just turned gay, in contradiction of everything known about him.
And of course, the Dutch Resistance meets in a gay bar and their leader is gay. This again has no support in historical texts. They are extraordinarily brave and noble - smuggling Jews, arming themselves to the teeth, and even planting a large bomb. In the gay bar, you'll find the only black actor, and he is a super flaming nightclub singer.
This mini-series does not tick every woke box, by any means. There is no discussion of the oppression by the patriarchy. They didn't switch a white person to another race (except for the lead character, Miep, who instead of looking full Austrian is played by a half-Jewish actress). However, the rewriting of history to advance a political agenda is a page straight out of 1984. And so I condemn the director and the studios of Disney and National Geographic and hereby sentence this mini-series to a 5/5 woke score. May God have mercy on their souls.
On the other hand, it's a gripping tale, totally immersive, so paradoxically I give it also a 5/5 for entertainment.
Created: 11-06-2023
