Don't most people (aside from professional critics) see how manipulative, artless, and dishonest this kind of show ends up being? Makes me so sad, because realistically rendered history, realistically told stories of whole human beings-who are now as ever, always complex, surprising, fallible, and contradictory-set in any time period are so much more interesting and enriching to watch. Written to mark the centenary of the outbreak of WWI, this new short story by multi-award-winning, million copy bestselling author Andrea Levy tells the tale of. It's not realistic, regarding any race nor any time period in history. Neither individuals-not groups of people-are All Heroic vs. As said: humankind is not constructed like that.
In The Long Song it plays itself out with all white women (and some white men) characterized as vulgar, cruel, mindlessly sadistic, punitive, avaricious, stupid, brutal, fiendish, spoiled, gibbering, petty, neurotic, shrill, brutal, and ridiculously silly-while Black people are characterized as near saints-kind, intelligent, sensitive, compassionate, thoughtful, reflective, grounded, realistic, canny, wise, humorous, nuanced, and multifacted. pure evil-like all those superhero films-which I thought we all understood is FANTASY, not reality.
Whatever happened to the notion that less is more? So many of these furious revisionist period dramas are so shrill and seething with vengeance and rage that the characters are drawn in a completely binary fashion of pure good vs.
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