The most arrogant type of film - one that presumes to understand the lives and experiences of people of color, yet refuses to acknowledge its own shortcomings while gleefully inserting itself into every facet of their cultures. It's a film that thinks the words "autobiographical" or "color blind" will somehow absolve itself of all accountability in the misguided portrayals we see on screen. But pretty photography can't hide everything.
I thought Krisha was great - it felt like the story of the Shults family at an incredibly intimate level, and the filmmaking fit the story. But to call Waves autobiographical in that sense, thereby superimposing a white Texan man's story onto that of a black family, is arrogance of the…