The Problem with The Great Wall Isn’t “Whitewashing”

by Sean NelsonCan you spot the real hero? Universal
The new film by the great Chinese director Zhang Yimou came to my attention the way most things do these days: people complaining about it on the internet. People took up arms against The Great Wall without having seen it, without knowing what it was about, without looking into it at all. Instead, they decided that it was a clear case of "whitewashing," a(nother) film about a white savior—in this case Matt Damon—intervening in an in