The White Boy Saved Us All Again in Gladiator II
A direct fall into the white savior narrative

Driss, a 19-year-old black man, acts in a porn film for the first time. Encouraged by the film director, Driss rapes Joana, his partner in the film. After the shoot, he decides to follow the young woman through the streets of Paris.
A direct fall into the white savior narrative
Dead Poets Society brilliantly combines defeat and optimism, rejection and love, craziness and daring, fear and freedom.
At least we got the original cast back, right? Not even that saves it. None of them could bring a sliver of hope to this special. Rather, they bring dread as we witness the light leaving from their eyes.
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