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

Two strangers from different cities having absolutely opposite personalities are made to tie the 'bond of life'. The film depicts how arranged marriages are still prevalent in the Indian society and are not as scary as they are thought to be.
A direct fall into the white savior narrative
After his family fled to England after the Vietnam War, Kit returns home to Saigon.
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.
So do I recommend that people see this movie, yes 100%, but do I think they are going to come out of it with 80 hot takes, yes 100%.
Despite the film’s efforts to reframe its heroine with modern complexity, a certain emotional distance lingers.