In 2023, only a blind and deaf moviegoer doesn’t know that a black actor in a potentially controversial movie is the best shield against fair criticism. And a black actress is, consider Forcecage + Sicking Radiance (references to DnD, which also turned into a movie!). A film with a black actress in the lead role is destined for success, even if it – success – is fictional.

Actually, that’s exactly what happened with the new “The Little Mermaid”, which was transformed from a cartoon into a film and got a charming 19-year-old mulatto to play Ariel.

By the way, she’s far from the only coloured mermaid there.

At first it seems like just some unthinkable nonsense of the creators, but something tells me: it’s much simpler than that. It’s about the crooked implementation of the idea to “humanise” the seven seas of the world’s oceans – the Caribbean, the waters lapping Africa, the Asian basin, the northern ocean and beyond.

Since the film has already been released and many have seen it, it’s easy to pick up an average hospital rating – generally, reviewers agree that Holly Bailey really did a great job with the role she was given. The problem is that there is no role as such. Just like all the other characters, though. Ironic, but the main character’s black skin colour was not even in the top ten minuses of the film.

Remember there was “Anna Boleyne” with a very, very black actress in the leading role? That was an 80 lvl trash, but here it was really no big deal, although many people were afraid, and even now they do not appreciate the “personnel changes” too much.

Here’s the problem: because of the black actress in the lead role, critics stubbornly gloss over the fact that the film is basically very bad. Cheap CGI, completely unrealistic portrayal of water, ugly sea creatures (no, I’m not talking about mermaids at all), clumsy acting by top-notch actors (Javier Bardem as the mermaid’s father and Melissa McCarthy as Ursula the witch), the disappearance of funny, cute and beloved scenes from the script in favour of songs that were sung on an entire pop album and the unnecessarily long running time, while the narrative is fully consistent with the fairy tale source material.

But…

Black Mermaid is applauded by Western critics because otherwise they would be eaten alive by an outraged public represented by racial minorities and radical liberals.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *