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I thought it was kind of great.

It is interesting to me how he's dealing in the nuances of class struggle and presenting maybe different ways or solutions for people to get out of it without being...

mean about it.

I think this isn't a mean movie.

Well, it's a mean movie, but not to the main character.

Yeah.

Well, I was going to say, yeah, yeah.

It's a mean movie to the white people in it.

I think that's great.

I think the nuance in which he's able to contain empathy for these characters is

is really special, especially considering the idea that some of these characters are wrapped in things that are beyond them.

They're victim to the system, but Boots looks at them with, again, like hopeful eyes.

And I think that's really great.

The exposition character.

She's very exposition-coded, but I wasn't mad at it.

I thought it was done the best it could have been.

See, I think what Boots Riley is trying to do here with the exposition is kind of part of this larger fairy tale atmosphere of

that fills the movie like I really do see the movie as like existing in this alternate universe and the movie kind of plays into that with some of the visual jokes like I'm thinking of a really good one with Robin Thede that made me crack up like it's that is hilarious oh my god I screamed and pointed social commentary too yeah about shopping while black right right

I was losing it in the theater.

But I think some of the heaviness of the exposition and some of the heaviness of the mechanics with which he's explaining, I don't know, it all kind of contributed to this idea that the movie is existing in...