War on Everyone was so terrible, but the Guard was genius.

I don’t favor powerful or entrenched. If you’re attempting to describe McDonough, I’m not plugging meritocracy or even the illusion of it, but he seems to have earned what power he has, though entrenched in Hollywood after 3 poorly performing films is a bit of a stretch. But you seem to like to blow up everything macro, and hurl accusiations and profile complete strangers. Thanks for your grandiose analysis, but I can make little sense of it. Why get so butthurt by a rote literary trope of redemption, it’s so common in so many mediums or are you just always on triggered?

Oh forgive me, the big dumdum, for not understanding the literary nuanced genius of the irish playwrite and his brother whose last work was also cop propaganda on the level of a david ayer movie.

“endorse censorship” look out we got another libertarian dork who thinks anything that challenges the status quo is “censorship” while anything putting out views that defend or reinforce it is clean pure “objective” opinions being harmlessly spouted into a contextless void and freedom of speech.

Underscoring the pointlessness of my assertion by paroting it borderlines on incoherence. Martin McDonough is a playwrite. Archetypes and propaganda use some of the same storytelling manipulations. Ireland has a storied history with police, race relations and the church, common themes in his work, just transported to America. I’m simply not for dumbing down dialogue surrounding racism by arguing that depiction/story and reality are beholden to the same set of rules. Buzzwords like propaganda mean little when used to endorse censorship.

racism is a real world issue and there’s already no shortage of media that bends backwards to be cop propaganda and make them likable. nobody is putting a gun to your head to take time out of your day to defend more of it but here you are

Painting despicable characters in a sympathetic arc is an age-old storytelling tic, it happens fucking everywhere.

Lastly, it’s an absurd claim that racist types are unable to change their outlook. It’s completely laughable to suggest that a character who is literally set on fire is getting off too easy.