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So I'll start off by saying that politically speaking my opinions align with the movie, but the fact that the plot barely holds up these beliefs while still always talking about it ruins the film. Candyman is created from a black man who was wrongfully murdered by police...so then he becomes a monster...? It's just weird to me how the entire movie is about how good men were murdered for no reason and then you turn them into monsters that murder children- it just feels strange how good men (which I'm not debating how they were killed was extremely evil) will then turn around and- murder innocent children...? The movie was painful to watch and the main mirror Candyman disappeared for a pretty significant point in the movie which didn't make sense to me.

Picked the game up on sale for 20$ and played through the main story in ~2 days (it is short) and I gotta say. I enjoyed the writing more than some avengers movies. I got the PS4 version and I did encounter some visual bugs and performance issues (nothing game breaking) and I'm writing this review as the credits roll. I would have paid 20$ for what I played already, I still have 3 expansions to go. I know this game wasn't a massive success but if writing this review helps someone try it then so be it. Ps. The beginning is a little cringe cuz it has the Captain America "stand up to bullying" speech and as a grown man it just felt kind of laughable, that's a personal opinion tho

While the base concept is a good one, it feels like the author brings in other aspects that is just a bit of a stretch, claiming that society believes a female abandoning a child is equivalent to a male SAing someone was just untrue in my eyes (while I'm sure certain circles would believe that I don't believe it's even close to a majority) I also had an issue with comparing recovering addicts (which the author is) to people such as Harvey Weinstein, the point of recovery is to take responsibility, while Monsters will die defending their actions. Another point made was that consumers of anything are at some fault was also one that lost me, someone born into a system that has existed before them and has no power to change said system is not guilty, they are the victim of said system. Despite my criticisms, it's still worth a read, more of a feminist book than a book talking about beloved people doing bad things in my opinion.