Talk:Amazing Grace (2018 film)

When criticism reaches beyond the work being discussed
I have a question about the quote from critic Armond White: Armond White of National Review criticized the film's politics, writing: "Is playing into the approval of white people the only way that bourgeois black people can think to confirm their significance? To reduce Franklin's art to the propaganda of 'empowerment' and activism disrespects the daily significance of the civil-rights movement and its basis in the sanctified church."[45]

White's criticism as quoted is only glancingly based on the documentary. This concluding quote is based on a larger phenomenon of what he sees as undue politicization and appropriation of Franklin's career by white political figures, as typified by her funeral. Given five appreciative, though also critical, paragraphs devoted to the film itself, would not the reader be better served, and the encyclopedic nature of the article be better preserved, by a quote or quotes from the portion of his review that is actually a review? Michael (talk) 16:44, 25 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Yes, I think they both would be. Martinevans123 (talk) 22:44, 2 January 2021 (UTC)