White Man's Burden

White Man's Burden

Reality Just Switched Sides

Directed by Desmond Nakano

Produced by UGC, A Band Apart

199589 min5.1 / 10

A provocative racial inversion allegory that uses dystopian role-reversal to interrogate systemic injustice, institutional violence, and the desperation of the dispossessed.

The story takes place in alternative America where the blacks are members of social elite, and whites are inhabitants of inner city ghettos. Louis Pinnock is a white worker in a chocolate factory, loving husband and father of two children. While delivering a package for black CEO Thaddeus Thomas, he is mistaken for a voyeur and, as a result, loses his job, gets beaten by black cops and his family gets evicted from their home. Desperate Pinnock takes a gun and kidnaps Thomas, demanding justice.

Questions people ask

  • Is White Man's Burden scary? Yes. More frightening than 82% of films.

  • Is White Man's Burden sad? Yes. More sad than 82% of films.

  • Is White Man's Burden violent? Yes. More violent than 80% of films.

  • Does White Man's Burden end with hope? Barely. Less hopeful than 78% of films.

  • Is White Man's Burden easy watching? Not especially. Less comforting than 74% of films.

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13/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Conventional, and it does not land.

Rarity44

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise5

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love5

How much audiences actually like it

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Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.

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Similar, pushed toward warmer and easier.

Like White Man's Burden, But Less Popular

Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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