Chance the Rapper critiques racism metaphors in Netflix disaster 'Bright'
Big-budget movie has been panned by critics
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Your support makes all the difference.Chance the Rapper has offered a critique of Netflix's film Bright starring Will Smith.
The artist focused particularly on a scene where an orc is lynched, which he called a "shallow" reference to racism in the US.
"I always feel a lil cheated when I see allegorical racism in movies cause that racism usually stems from human emotion or tolerance but not by law or systems the way it is in real life," he tweeted.
"The characters in #Bright live in a timeline where racism is gone... cause we hate ork now."
He added: "I think the idea is that they're a step below bottom of the spectrum blackness. Which is why Will [Smith]'s character, the Mexican cop and the ork have that dialogue in the street.
When a fan asked whether Chance may have misinterpreted the scene, he responded: "I tried to look at it that way but a few minutes into the movie they make Will's character say 'Fairy Lives don't Matter'."
Bright is said to be Netflix's most expensive film to date, costing a reported $90m (£67.5m) to produce. It has received negative reviews from critics, with The Independent's Geoffrey Mcnab awarding it a single star, writing: "Bright soon turns into a dim-witted action movie with everyone racing around in pursuit of the wand. Will Smith looks as trim as in his Men In Black days and is still able to put across the corniest lines in Landis' script with commendable conviction.
"This, though, is a mess that he can't clean up on his own. It's a wildly misconceived movie likely to prove equally unsatisfactory to fans of LAPD dramas like The Shield or Ayer's own End Of Watch, and to those who yearn to escape back to Middle-Earth."
Read what other critics are saying about Bright here.
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