Look, I’m not saying the choices made in the making of the film were all good. There was some obvious bias there, but that was (& honestly mostly still is) an artifact of who provides the funding to make most Hollywood films. We have a long legacy wherein rich, bigoted white assholes run most everything, and they’re control freaks who demand their preferred POV be used. Whether & which of those involved in the making of the film are of the same mindset, I cannot say.
I see the film as a relatively early critique of the enshitification of our society by those same assholes, and so that it got made at all is a minor miracle. Potential compromises in the integrity of those involved in getting it done are easy to pick at roughly 35 years after the fact, but - while the racism is kinda blatant - I don’t think it should invalidate the entire message the movie was trying to convey.
(Holds up a mirror.)
Look, I’m not saying the choices made in the making of the film were all good. There was some obvious bias there, but that was (& honestly mostly still is) an artifact of who provides the funding to make most Hollywood films. We have a long legacy wherein rich, bigoted white assholes run most everything, and they’re control freaks who demand their preferred POV be used. Whether & which of those involved in the making of the film are of the same mindset, I cannot say.
I see the film as a relatively early critique of the enshitification of our society by those same assholes, and so that it got made at all is a minor miracle. Potential compromises in the integrity of those involved in getting it done are easy to pick at roughly 35 years after the fact, but - while the racism is kinda blatant - I don’t think it should invalidate the entire message the movie was trying to convey.