Rarely have I seen a movie so confident that its viewers not only revel in American benightedness but are eager to identify with it. Perhaps you find all this to be a bit mean-spirited, but please understand that this is precisely the audience to which director Matt Thompson ("Frisky Dingo," "Archer") and screenwriter David Callaham are speaking. And that George Washington never dual-wielded chainsaws, and wasn't alive at the same time as Thomas Edison, who never invented gloves that shoot lightning. Ergo, an additional burden falls to the rest of us to explain that this is not some kind of "Schoolhouse Rock" equivalent or a Cliff's Notes version of the events leading up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Those are precisely the sort of stone-cold imbeciles who would rather believe the most far-fetched nonsense about our history than study and learn the truth of it. What I'm saying is that a huge swath of this nation really is that dumb, and not only that, dedicated to preserving their ignorance and passing that ignorance down to their children. She was a freed slave who went on to be the face of the pancake syrup that we love and we have in our pantries today." Name not ringing a bell? This Shreveport, Louisiana, native and bright beacon of our future spoke at a Trump rally last year and hailed Aunt Jemima, fictional character and racist breakfast mascot, as "the picture of the American dream.
Still think that I'm taking this all too seriously? Allow me to remind you about Reagan Escudé, student. However, this movie arrives less than two weeks after Congress and President Biden officially made Juneteenth a holiday while, at the state level, conservatives are campaigning to prevent schools from teaching the children the truth about how and why Juneteenth became a holiday. The level of revisionism at work here isn't merely absurd, it's insane. Pei on how the Lincoln Memorial should look. and Marilyn Monroe, and has George Washington consulting I.M.
We're talking about a cartoon movie that depicts Abraham Lincoln's funeral as having been attended by Martin Luther King, Jr. OK? For the love of all that is pure and good, please know this.Ī few years ago I would have taken it for granted this would be obvious to everyone. None of the events depicted in Netflix's newly released "America: The Motion Picture" are accurate depictions of any concrete version reality we know.
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