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Michael Berkowitz's avatar

"...critics are questioning the legitimacy of filmmakers telling stories as community outsiders. "

I think the first (and possibly the last) question we have to ask ourselves is: "Why should we care?" Unless one is obsessed with lambasting strangers over their "oppressor" identities -- that is, if one is a relatively sane, normal person -- one's interest in a movie is confined to how good it is, not whether the people who made it had a right to. Stop paying attention to people like Lulu Wang and they'll go away.

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Rob in Germany's avatar

Two thoughts. Firstly the vast majority of tv/movies Shown are produced by Hollywood (with the odd BBC show thrown his means that foreign language films were for the sophisticated types (meaning nobody watched them) now thanks to Netflix a whole new world have been non Hollywood films/shows has opened up.

Second regarding when critics are questioning the legitimacy of filmmakers telling stories as community outsiders. Well taking that to it's logical conclusion would mean that Hollywood would only produce films/shows featuring white people and white storylines.

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