Bright and Notes on Social Allegory

The movie Bright is on Netflix. That means that, by the time you're watching it, you haven't paid for it. Therefore, you haven't wasted any money on it. And, hey, it entertained me, mildly, for the time it was running in which I wasn't going to do anything else but waste time anyway, so no more wasted time than there was going to be. So, on that level, I'm not going to tell you to avoid watching.

I will tell you not to expect much. Included in that is... You shouldn't expect Bright to live up to its own ambitions. It just isn't thoughtful enough on the topic. It can entertain enough to eat up some time, but not much else.

The ambition is to say something important and profound on the topic of bigotry. The tools are good ones, fantasy elements in an alternate-history modern day world to make an allegory for a generally hated race. The problems... are big ones.
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