Revolutionary transformation is possible for anyone, though it may take more effort for some than others. There those born into the struggle, and there are allies who join it later on, and as liberals exist even within allyship, though it shouldn't necessarily be, the onus often lies on those who have only ever known the struggle to grab them by the pants and swing them over their head if that's what it takes to see the world through the eyes of the oppressed.
I could call Graham Greene's performance as Arthur hypnotic, terrifying, entrancing, even intoxicating, but no words in the English language can sum up even a quarter of what makes him so good. Between homoerotic undertones and flagrant machismo, Arthur puts Peter in a situation which holds freedom at the cost of violence. He reduces Peter from an establishment civil rights lawyer working within the system despite it letting him down, to a cornered mass of fear and hatred, ready to kill if it means his freedom. I can't call Peter's arc regressive, quite the opposite actually. Peter goes from this White man who claims to speak on behalf of the natives, yet fails to understand the cost of liberation, to someone who realizes exactly that, even if it took a life and death situation for him to understand, a situation the indigenous people he spoke on behalf of are all too familiar with.
also arthur is super hot
Revolutionary transformation is possible for anyone, though it may take more effort for some than others. There those born into the struggle, and there are allies who join it later on, and as liberals exist even within allyship, though it shouldn't necessarily be, the onus often lies on those who have only ever known the struggle to grab them by the pants and swing them over their head if that's what it takes to see the world through the eyes of the oppressed.
I could call Graham Greene's performance as Arthur hypnotic, terrifying, entrancing, even intoxicating, but no words in the English language can sum up even a quarter of what makes him so good. Between homoerotic undertones and flagrant machismo, Arthur puts Peter in a situation which holds freedom at the cost of violence. He reduces Peter from an establishment civil rights lawyer working within the system despite it letting him down, to a cornered mass of fear and hatred, ready to kill if it means his freedom. I can't call Peter's arc regressive, quite the opposite actually. Peter goes from this White man who claims to speak on behalf of the natives, yet fails to understand the cost of liberation, to someone who realizes exactly that, even if it took a life and death situation for him to understand, a situation the indigenous people he spoke on behalf of are all too familiar with.
also arthur is super hot
