Conflicted Experience

Rating: 6/10 (1 October 2018)

First of all, i did learn a couple of things that i had to look up after the movie that i found genuinely interesting and fascinating, having said that the movie touches on a very good subject but ultimately is just not very good as a movie because of pacing issues.
It's very hard for me to put the finger on it and verbalize what bothered me about the movie. I felt very disconnected with the characters mostly but was very interested in the story itself and the underlying issues.
Being called a racist if you don't like this movie shows exactly nowadays herd mentality, i was under the impression that i'm going in to watch a movie, and i will judge it as that, this is not a documentary that aim's to be judged on the researched facts. Consequently i'm also willing to forgive certain historical inaccuracies.
As i said initially the pacing is all over the place, some odd scenes in that are absolutely unnecessary to drive the story forward - but most important the "schtick" of this movie that the trailer showed was not necessary (and not adding anything) in my opinion in the end. Some scenes also felt incredibly rushed and felt like there was 20 minutes of additional content just missing for them to make sense, especially towards the end.
Having said all this i wasn't particularly bored, just mostly irritated and not very immersed. I don't regret going to see it, but i would not recommend the movie without reservations, i felt this is a bit of a missed opportunity and could have been even heavier on the subject.