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user-inactivated  ·  4336 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The history in 'Lincoln', 'Argo', and 'Zero Dark Thirty'

    but the deeper objection to “Lincoln” has to do with the way it turns the history of African-American freedom into the story of a heroic white man.

I'm almost 100 percent sure that this movie, which was after all entitled Lincoln, in fact turned the story of a heroic white man into a partial history of African-American freedom. At the very least a dramatic retelling. What a ridiculous criticism.