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Dune is a great movie, and director Denis Villeneuve has filmed what some called an “unfilmable” story. YouTube commentator “Morgoth’s Review” calls the book a “reactionary masterpiece” and adds that conservative views of Dune say more about the reviewer than anything else. If so, then this may be more about me than the movie, but I think these themes speak to everyone.
Dune is about great issues, so both progressives and conservatives can justify their own interpretations — the mark of a great work. Unfortunately, unnecessary elements in the film about contemporary American racial politics jar the viewer out of absorption. Dune has become yet another battleground in America’s tiresome victimhood competition....