The synopsis reads pretty much like one of the Purge films. The article is right for the most part - holding the film back will do nothing to solve the issues. And from the blurb, it reads like a parable for the oppressed, the poor, the exploited.
The problem, if I'm trying to see it from Universal's point of view, is that this can be twisted. The dominant angry white supremacist male with all the privileges that come with that have made a narrative of victimisation, that they are the ones being silenced and oppressed by the "elite" as if Trump doesn't come under that definition in every sense of the word except for intelligence. So yeah, it's not like this film is going to create a problem or that its shelving will solve one... and yet, if it were me, I would hate to think it could ever be used as an excuse, as a trigger or even just as a scapegoat. So if that's what they are thinking, I get it. I don't think I agree with it. But I get it.
The problem, if I'm trying to see it from Universal's point of view, is that this can be twisted. The dominant angry white supremacist male with all the privileges that come with that have made a narrative of victimisation, that they are the ones being silenced and oppressed by the "elite" as if Trump doesn't come under that definition in every sense of the word except for intelligence. So yeah, it's not like this film is going to create a problem or that its shelving will solve one... and yet, if it were me, I would hate to think it could ever be used as an excuse, as a trigger or even just as a scapegoat. So if that's what they are thinking, I get it. I don't think I agree with it. But I get it.
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