they…. they colonized Spirit
This isn’t just a bad remake or cash grab issues. It doesn’t matter how good or bad this film turns out to be. The very premise of it is deeply at fault. The original Spirit is a film about a horse who couldn’t be tamed bonding with a Lakota man in friendship and mutual respect.
This… no. Just no. Turning it into a young white (oh, i’m sorry, the PR team keeps pointing out she’s ‘half-mexican’) girl saves the wild horses is just awful. Truly disgustingly awful.
There was so much more to Spirit. Spirit was never even really about horse-wranglers being bad. It was about colonization and persecution and attempted erasure of Native American culture. The stripping of freedom. The atrocities committed against native tribes all across America. Spirit being torn from his family, like so many Native families were forcibly torn apart. The way the US soldiers were seeking to break his spirit and tame him so that they could exploit him for profit, as was done to so many Native tribes.
Spirit was never just a horse movie. It was always about so much more.
And they took it and made it into a white girl saves the wild horses from the big bad horse-wranglers movie.
I am genuinely disgusted.
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Me, ignoring all my responsibilities and thinking about girls: it’s what Sappho would want
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literally us gays growing up and trying to relate to something
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THE LESBIAN AGENDA IS SUCCEEDING
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*marries u but only as a friend*
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being caught taking selfies is one of lifes most embarrassing moments.
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me: i cant move, a cute animal is asleep on me
person: push it off
me: [enraged and offended]
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life is downright hilarious when you’re ✨ emotionally unavailable ✨
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