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TDS Infects Washington Post Review of 14th Century Film 'The Uprising'

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TDS Infects Washington Post Review of 14th Century Film 'The Uprising' Flick On Click Website The film, "The Uprising" is supposedly about the English Peasant's Revolt in the year 1381. However, according to Washington Post movie critic Thomas Floyd, the movie is really about ...Donald Trump. You don't have to even read the text of his review to discover this since the title alone reveals the absurd TDS, "The first No Kings movie is about a medieval peasant revolt and ‘people power’." As for the body of the review, the TDS also kicks in right away: When filmmaker Paul Greengrass prepared last year to shoot “The Uprising,” a historical epic about the 1381 English Peasants’ Revolt, he knew the movie’s climax spoke to the current moment. But it was more on the nose than he ever intended. As Andrew Garfield’s plowman leads an ambush on King Richard II, in the wake of the quashed rebellion, the reluctant revolutionary leans toward the monarch and issues his own decree: “No kings.” Greengras

First report: Movie review: 'The Uprising' a medieval revolt that speaks to our modern moment — stltoday.com, 3d