Wesley Morris

I mean, it's funny.

Like, I don't know why I feel like I'm the person who's got to stand up for this movie.

Like lots of people love it.

Like it does not need me, but, but I, but I, I really liked it too.

I don't mean this.

No, no.

These are my two nitpicks.

I, I actually did find the Christmas adventurers funny in some way because I think there's something really like dramatically comical in,

this history of... These secret backdoor societies.

Well, no, no.

White men's attraction to Black people.

And, like, whiteness's inability to...

to just love people without like black people, especially without also having to perform contempt for them.

Um, and you know, I think this movie is coming from a really deep place.

Um, if not in the person who made it, then certainly in the environment, and this isn't an environment this person understands in some way.

And I think for now, the way that he's handling it is to laugh at it.

I don't know what he does after this, but I mean, I think for now, the juxtaposition of these, they're not idiots.

These are like powerful, smart people who also are almost satirically wielding their racism to...

keep their end of the country pure.

Well, this is the thing.