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

The Third film in Miklós Jancsó's documentary series Message of Stones.
A direct fall into the white savior narrative
After years of mediocrity, Thunderbolts* is the welcome change MCU fans were waiting for.
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Netflix’s Shadow and Bone has a complicated relationship with race. It has a diverse cast, but not without its problems. Based on Leigh Bardugo’s two book series, the show features characters from the Shadow and Bone trilogy, which is very straight and white, and the Six of Crows duology, which is much more diverse. When bringing together a cast and writing about these characters, the team behind the show expanded upon some of the representation missing from the first trilogy, then seemed to take away representation from the duology. Shadow and Bone seems to play a bit of a push and pull game when it comes to portraying diversity onscreen.
It's chock full of dream-come-true moments for Spidey fans, but its lack of substance reeks of a self-indulgence that is rare even in fan fiction