why the PC hate the movie the Highwaymen

In my last post, I reviewed the Netflix movie the Highwayman, and noted that some reviewers in the MSM disliked the film.

Lileks does a better job at taking down these politically correct reviews LINK

here is part of his essay:
The Guardian quotes are in italics.

 After 50 years vaunted as a masterpiece of New Hollywood film-making and 60s zeitgeist, it’s finally getting taken down a peg, courtesy of some fogeyish cop-aganda furious that the world won’t follow its moral code. 

 And that moral code might be don’t kill people and take their property? Is that it?...

The earlier film, promoted with the flirty tagline “They’re young … they’re in love … and they kill people”, submitted the ravishing Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as icons of countercultural style.

 Because killing people while being ravishing gave the target audience a delicious little thrill, perhaps. Oh to be footloose, fancy-free, not working, and accompanied on all our journeys by enthusiastic bluegrass that mythologized our greed!

read the whole thing, and remember the film Bonnie and Clyde as being one of the many things in the 1960's that made things change by making evil people out as glamourous and wonderful.

Suddenly, calling evil good and good evil became okay, in the name of "multiculturalism".

 Because this has more to do with normalizing their evil so the sociopaths in society can feel good about themselves (Freud made guilt something evil and so if you point out their deeds are evil, you are the bad guys.)

Because multiculturalism has nothing to do with how different cultures view evil: because as one who has lived and worked in a half dozen cultures, most of them non European, I hate to tell the multiculturalists that murder is sort of looked down upon in all of these cultures, and the story of men being willing to risk their lives fighting monsters is as old as Gilgamesh or Beowulf or the Ramayana.

It takes modern day "multiculturalism" to make Grendel a hero instead of the spirit of chaos that destroys the safety of the ordinary folks.

I dislike horror films because too often they start with a classic "kill the monster, protect the innocent", but often the film ends up as a series, and now the evil monster is the hero: "hey look our hero Freddy is killing the innocent again, whoopie".

Some writers of horror, such as Stephen King or Dean Koontz, tend to paint evil as evil, and the good guys as good guys trying to stop the evil, but alas that is not always true, either in film or in modern novels.

Because if you take the part of the bad guy, hey  you are hip and edgy.

and what does it say when the press paints the innocent touchy feely embraces of a decent man like Uncle Joe as evil, while painting a fake Hispanic sociopath as the new Messiah? From a sarcastic essay at the NYTimes:

WASHINGTON — The heavens part. The light shines down. The rise in the oceans begins to slow. The world is once more bathed in the mystical glow of a messiah. Our redemption from Donald Trump is at hand. We have The One again, a New One — another lanky, bookish, handsome man with an attractive young family, a thin résumé, an exotic name, a hip affect, a rock star aura, an enticing smile, a liberal press corps ready to fluff his pillows and a frothing Fox News....

Still, Menn writes, “it’s unclear whether the United States is ready for a presidential contender who, as a teenager, stole long-distance phone service for his dial-up modem, wrote a murder fantasy in which the narrator drives over children on the street, and mused about a society without money.”

it's not that he wrote a murder fantasy per se: it's that he wrote in the first person voice about a man who took pleasure in killing the innocent. As if he identified with the protagonist.

Has anyone read this? 

It is sick and evil.

And don't tell me it's teenage fantasy: because people just don't change that much.