Glenn Weldon

It guides you through this, but I think that's bad enough.

Worst, I think, is it tries to drag the story into relevance when it's already relevant.

Now you're making this a white supremacy thing.

And an Aryan thing.

All these things are kind of comfortably in the subtext, but across four hours and across sort of heavy hand, it becomes just the text.

And I don't really need help understanding an allegorical novel.

Sure.

Which is what this seems dedicated to doing.

You know, we are the slowest students in class.

We're probably on our cell phones or folding laundry, as I do when I watch Netflix.

Yeah.

So it needs to punctuate and enhance.

The end of it, for me, just felt like I've been preached to by a first-year philosophy student or an entry-level critical theory student who's reading Lord of the Flies for the first time.

And I feel like...

You know, something short and savage, you know, something one hour long.

And that's all you need is this quick stab, if you will, this quick penetrating stab.

Oh, and there is, I think, a lot of homoeroticism in this adaptation.

That's what they want to put into the subtext.

And I feel like, why is this now back into the subtext where all of the subtext is now into the text?

What has changed about us?