HOLLYWOOD IS WHITEWASHING GENOCIDE—and audiences are EATING IT UP. Lav Diaz’s “Magellan” dares to paint the savage colonizer Ferdinand Magellan as a tragic figure, bathing his path of DESTRUCTION in “golden-pink sunlight” while Indigenous bodies pile up. This is not art; it’s APOLOGY. The film’s “hypnotic grace” is a dangerous anesthetic, numbing us to the historical reality of rape, pillage, and cultural annihilation. Simultaneously, “The Testament of Ann Lee” glorifies a fanatical cult leader who weaponized sexual trauma into a dogma of repression, her followers’ “furious, stomping athleticism” masking a DEEPLY DISTURBED psyche. That these films are celebrated as “artful bio-pics” reveals a sickening truth: we are now a culture that fetishizes the monsters of history, polishing their icons while erasing the blood on their hands. The current wave of prestige filmmaking isn’t just revising history; it’s conducting a MASS HYSTERECTOMY on our collective conscience, surgically removing all moral accountability in favor of aestheticized suffering. The real shock isn’t on screen, but in the mirror—we are the converts, eagerly swallowing their poison.
Author: Kayitsi.com
