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A Robot Bit Me
That's not me. That's the film. Skeeter isn't the main character? Her throwaway date scene was likely longer than the Medgar Evers assassination and the violent arrest of Yule May (the only instance of Shit Getting Real) combined. The movie and its heroine treat black people as props. We are expected to feel good about this.
And yeah, the Magical Negro and other lazy stereotypes are everywhere here. "I loves me some fraaahd chicken," is a hand-to-god line spoken by Octavia Spencer's character. She so sassy!
This movie is deplorable.
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