Master and Commander is... Well, it certainly doesn't feel like propaganda, in the same way, to me. Sure, the doctor plays a prominent role for a while, but it is not the main focus of the movie. That's very different to Chocolat or Tomatoes.
Master and Commander doesn't represent the contemporary "zeitgeist" or philosophy of our current "social betters". Chocolat, which I'm gonna assume you haven't seen, really, really does (and Tomatoes does even more so)...
Faggots or not.
I admit I haven't heard of the Ninth Gate, though. I'm not a huge fan of Depp, in most things, so I haven't really sought it out, admittedly...
AS for why this matters - I think it's important to observe that "wokeness" isn't a new phenomenon, and that, while movies like these were relatively rare, up until the last decade, the culture war was well underway, by then, and Hollywood was quite happy to use the guise of "indie flick" or "set in period France" as an excuse to shove vast amounts of woke propaganda down people's throats...
This movie ain't exactly obscure, after all. Though nor is it Disney/Pixar, who, obviously, this kind of political bent is kind of a given for, even in films made in the mid-2000s...
Master and Commander is... Well, it certainly doesn't feel like propaganda, in the same way, to me. Sure, the doctor plays a prominent role for a while, but it is not the main focus of the movie. That's very different to Chocolat or Tomatoes.
Master and Commander doesn't represent the contemporary "zeitgeist" or philosophy of our current "social betters". Chocolat, which I'm gonna assume you haven't seen, really, really does (and Tomatoes does even more so)...
Faggots or not.
I admit I haven't heard of the Ninth Gate, though. I'm not a huge fan of Depp, in most things, so I haven't really sought it out, admittedly...
AS for why this matters - I think it's important to observe that "wokeness" isn't a new phenomenon, and that, while movies like these were relatively rare, up until the last decade, the culture war was well underway, by then, and Hollywood was quite happy to use the guise of "indie flick" or "set in period France" as an excuse to shove vast amounts of woke propaganda down people's throats...
This movie ain't exactly obscure, after all. Though nor is it Disney/Pixar, who, obviously, this kind of political bent is kind of a given for, even in films made in the mid-2000s...