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It appears your browser does not have it turned on. Please see your browser settings for this feature. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Shot over a four-year period, Linda Goode Bryant and Laura Poitras' Flag Wars is a poignant and very personal look at a community in Columbus, Ohio, undergoing gentrification. What happens when gay white homebuyers move into a working-class black neighborhood?

Some reviewers have called this a film about discrimination against lesbians and gay men. But they are the primary gentrifiers in this film, so sexual orientation should be a non-issue. These men and women were profiteers often obnoxiously so , and to categorize them as 'victims' is to avoid the obvious: they exploit the lower levels of society, and that's no different than the legions of heterosexuals who do the same. I was disturbed by this film, and that's a good thing.

A documentary that disturbs has done its job. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. I went to see this movie because I thought the subject matter would make a great documentary. Unfortunately the film strayed from the main theme too much and became tedious. The story ends up focusing on an alcoholic bum that had inherited a house from her parents in the neighborhood and let it become a decrepit version of what it had once been.

When we see the inside of her home near the end of the film we see the squalor she lives in and immediately lose sympathy for her situation even though she has her charms. I wondered why they hadn't focused more on the working class families that were doing their best to survive and balance the new demands of upkeeping their homes to the historic standards. I wasn't satisfied with the gay homeowners stories either.

Why aren't the viewers filled in on this important fact?? This movie could have been more about the situation and less about one unfortunate soul. Zhithilien 15 January While this documentary does its job of, well, documenting, I did take a couple issues with it: First, the film is misleading in that it promotes itself as an issue of conflict between homosexuals and African Americans.

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