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barnegatsailor t1_jefzzoh wrote

Reply to comment by enough-rope in What are some r/movies tropes? by HotSwordfish23

>Movie that makes me feel uncomfortable but there's actually nothing wrong with it: problematic.

Building off of this one; movies where the protagonist is a terrible person or amoral character are problematic because they're "praising terrible behavior".

Like, no, the whole point of a movie with terrible person as the protagonist is to explore how being a bad person will eventually cause you ruin in the end.

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cockblockedbydestiny t1_jegplin wrote

This is also the reason comedy gets unfairly shit on: in the name of white knighting or whatever people will deliberately misunderstand the butt of the joke and assuming whomever is saying it is perpetuating harmful stereotypes. This in spite of how ridiculous it would be for an obviously intelligent, talented person to be saying this stuff for real (and that it usually wouldn't even qualify as a joke to begin with if they were being serious about it)

Artists need to have the freedom to depict problematic characters or situations, otherwise it just comes off as preaching

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