At What Cost?

Rating: 1/10 (11 April 2011)

It is truly alarming how someone can sit down after watching this movie and give a positive critique of it, separating the content from the cinema history genius of it. Film making "art" founded on racist crap. Congratulations. You must truly be some kind of genius robot. I am an African American and I love black and white movies. My friends point out that they are racist, but I dismiss that as a sign of the times back then, and I find them truly entertaining. However, who gives a damn about this so-called cinematic piece of "art" when you have whites running around in black face, the murderous Klan depicted as heroes and rabid Negro men running around molesting pure, innocent, virtuous white women? If this had been a movie glamorizing the Holocaust and the Hitler machine, I truly feel the reviews would be different. Slavery happened, Reconstruction happened, the Klan is still alive and well with a long rich history, but how can you glorify this beneath the guise of "art" and ground breaking innovation? The 10-star review I read said he can understand it being hard to watch if you are black, but how can it be easy for him to watch, period? Since when does a movie become great without taking into consideration the frigging content? (The story sucked, but how about those special effects and gorgeous women? True classic!)