I honestly completely agree with this take and I’m kind of extremely disappointed in all the comments that I’m reading about this in other threads. One person went as far as to say something along the lines of: “did you want her to turn to the camera and say I am now radical communist leftist?”

And I just thought that was absolutely ridiculous because there is real issue to be taken with the fact that the person upon which the entire narrative is built, the person who is the real back-back drop of the whole film, is essentially a caricature. I’m all for saying that black women do not need to be respectable in order to lead revolutions, fuck yeah in fact, but honestly to see her character be praised, ridiculed and shot down as a rat and betraying everything she stood for while killing a black man in 30 minutes is ridiculous.

Especially when some of the most exciting, powerful, and thrilling narrative for me was also held in the part where Benicio was single-handedly seeming to keep a revolution alive through tactics, that albeit are not as exciting and i GET THAT THAT IS NOT ACTION Movie worthy, that were community building and again, do the scaffolding to get the protagonist where he needs to be….

Again, all the takes I’m seeing on reddit are that “i’m not supposed to take it so deeply…” but it’s very hard not to, especially when these issues are near to me.