Let's make a list of movies that have based themes, even if the writers and directors perhaps weren't doing that on purpose. Include spoilers if you want, but please mark them in advance.
I've got two in mind.
Appaloosa from 2007 with Viggo Mortensen and Ed Harris. A western about two lawmen for hire who come to a small western town and get hired on to take down a land baron who murdered the previous Marshal. Pretty typical setup as far as westerns go, but the movie introduces a female character about a third of the way through who is pretty realistically portrayed. She has zero action scenes, she quickly starts making moves on the senior lawman, played by Ed Harris, but also tries to get her hooks into his deputy. At some point when there is a falling out between her and Ed Harris, she accuses Viggo's character of trying to make moves on her and Ed Harris's character straight brushes it off by saying he doesn't believe her and believes Viggo because they're friends. There's no 'what if she's telling the truth' drama. She also later tries to hook up with the evil land baron character. Very based themes about the nature of women, hypergamy, positive male friendship, and the untrustworthiness of women.
Side Effects from 2013 with Jude Law, Rooney Mara, and Channing Tatum. A psychological thriller about a psychologist, Jude Law, diagnosing a windowed housewife, Rooney Mara, who murdered her husband, Tatum, and tries to plead insanity due to the supposed side effects of an anti-depressant she was on. I won't spoil the whole movie, but not everything is as it seems, and there is a sordid lesbian romance later on in the movie, where it is revealed who was lying about what and who is manipulating who. You'll be very satisfied at the end when the guilty party ends up getting what's they deserve. Also a lot of based themes about the nature of women, though I don't want to go into specifics due to spoilers.
People who don't understand the Confederacy, even among 'historians' are depressingly common. There's a dipshit on YouTube in particular that keeps popping up in my feed whenever I'm watching Civil War stuff, who is a zealous believer in the idea that the Civil War was purely about slavery from top to bottom. He refuses to accept the idea that even one of the lowliest privates could have had motivations for fighting other than preserving slavery. He thinks the entire concept of States Rights is not only unimportant, but was never important to anyone.
Which is utter nonsense. I'm a proponent of both States Rights and secession right now, and would absolutely join a State military to fight for it if the issue were on the table. If it's possible for me, in the 21st century to still value the concept that much, despite all the damage that's been done to State sovereignty over the last nearly 200 years, of course men of the 1860s would be willing to do the same.
Which is funny, because its literally on every record that the leader of the Confederacy, Robert E. Lee, only joined for loyalty and love of his land instead of any true care about slavery. A man who could have had everything in life, signed it away for his passion.
You'd think the kind of Leftist who parrot these kind of points would understand the idea of "I fucking hate my government and what they support does not represent me, but I also hate these other groups even more."
Is it that At-Shun guy?
The whole holy war against slavery thing came back into the mainstream. It's so silly how a war between two slave holding republics is about ending slavery. It is really sad if you give any deference to the South at all, you get accused of being a "Lost Causer" and are villified
Lol yup. That's the one.
Yeah, I get that suggested to me as well.
And You can guarantee some dipshit on future YouTube would be claiming the war was about whatever is considered the most extreme "far-right" opinion of the public today, and not any opinions you actually hold. It wouldn't even be something considered extreme today. Like two future guys will be arguing 'The red states were fucking racist against Undocumented Citizens! They even called them Illegals!' - 'Nuh uh - the war was about states rights!' - 'Yeah, states rights to do what? Block innocent Undocumented Citizens from voting!'