The French and Haitian Revolutions are one of the most fascinating and momentous events in what passes for western history, and yet the way liberals treat these subjects is just downright atrocious
While the horrific counter-revolution of 1776 is glorified, the French Revolution is treated like some ugly step-child they’d rather keep locked in the basement
I’m sick of it, I just want to learn about a cool-ass revolution without power-worshipping liberals throwing a conniption
I liked the one with Kirsten Dunst about Marie Antoinette. It paints her as a victim, which she absolutely was not (at least entirely), but it also shows how fucked up the French monarchs were and how they really had it coming. It’s a lib movie but I found it entertaining.
But yeah, we are generally not allowed to imagine successful revolutions or things actually changing (unless the revolutions/changes are being led by slaveowners).
The Sofia Copola movie is about how actually the ennui of rich white ladies is horror like none other, like 50% of Sofia Copolas works.
She was not even a little bit a victim. She was literally the political leader of the faction of government opposing the King from the Right. She was the French Revolutionary equivalent of the Black Hundreds.