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Title: I'm glad they made it
Review: It's surprising to see Hollywood make a film in which racism is the major theme. That the movie simplifies the topic and relies mostly on insane coincidence and two dimensional characters to tell the story is not surprising. Here's the movie: Character 1 screams a racial epithet. Character 2 screams a racial epithet back. Through some ridiculous happenstance the character is either redeemed or has something terrible happen to them. At the end everything is solved and wrapped up nicely. The only piece of illuminating information in the film is that Los Angeles is the most hateful city on the planet, and everyone there is extremely upfront and confrontational with their prejudices and hatred of the other races around them. I just hope the success of the film leads to more movies that deal with racism in a more realistic way, and that are actually thought provoking and humane.
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