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g0ldie posted...

ultimately, it's because it's a story about African women.

yes, they could have been terrible people, and this story might be sanitizing the atrocities that they committed (idk, I haven't seen it), but you don't see this outrage when movies about: Vikings, Romans, knights, Samurai, medieval Asia, medieval Europe, etc. come out.

people want to gatekeep the kind of black stories that are told.

This is accurate.

I saw it btw. They don't ignore the fact that this nation committed slavery, but they make it seem that the leader of the women warriors (Viola Davis) was anti-slavery, and while she is a fictional character, this would be unlikely based on what they were known to have done. They also make it seem like the king (not fictional) is moving away from being involved in slavery, when it is known that he only briefly considered that, and then doubled down.

I still liked the movie though.