TV-14 | 2h 2m | Drama, Romance | July 29, 2022 Rotten Tomatoes: “Purple Hearts”: Critics: 25—Audience: 88
The small, liberal film-critic community is pontificating from a tiny island isolated in the ocean of America’s largely conservative Silent Majority, via the huge megaphone of Rotten Tomatoes. The numbers don’t lie: Movie-going America loves patriotic and military themes, and the critics hate them and think they can change America by giving conservative content a big thumb’s down.
Meanwhile the right is boycotting Disney’s new woke-ness. (This I support; no sex education and gender hyper-awareness for 5-year olds in my world, thank you very much.) But conservatives are also generally boycotting cinematic art, based on actors’ and directors’ liberal politics, regardless of whether or not these highly trained show-business professionals are technically skilled at storytelling in politically neutral movies. They imagine they can thereby stop the Hollywood juggernaut in its tracks and change America that way….