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I got hooked because it was teatime and there was fuck-all I could find on my 28 streaming services and Twilight was just on telly. Sooo... now I have to re-watch the rest.

As popcorn films, they're not bad. The politics - fucking hell, there's a huge NOPE about once every ten minutes.

But, hey, nowhere near as bad as #BirthOfANation or #BreakfastAtTiffanys and they're lauded works.

This one is only for students of the #craft and #art of #film.

Repeated use of *the* #homophobic slur bothers me, though that was how most people spoke publicly in that era, and even into this century.

#Misogyny is also open here.

Both so casually accepted and expressed it really reduces the value of watching this to being purely technical for most people.

I won't watch #BirthOfANation regardless of its place in #cinematic #history.

The originality of this can't negate its open #bigotry

9/23 Among other things, Wilson hosted a screening of a new thing, a movie, #BirthofANation, which portrayed the #KKK as "a heroic force, necessary to preserve American values, protect white women, and maintain #WhiteSupremacy".

Celebrating this movie in the White House legitimized #WhiteSupremacy and connected it to Washington, the north!

Jim Crow, lynchings, Confederate symbol installations all grew in his wake. Not coincidence.