''HAMILTON'' -FILM REVIEW- HONOUR : DISNEY +

On the morning of May 12, 2020, Lin Manuel woke up with a jolt. His wife Vanessa noticed his energy [ '' More than usual,'' she commented.] He couldn't sit still until he'd tweeted the news : '' Our Hamilton film. This July 3rd. On Disney+ "

The world that received '' Hamilton '' in July 2020, however, was not the world that made it the toast of the 2016 Tony Awards.

The show's promise of a multiethnic America fuelled by immigrant ingenuity seemed after four years  of the Trump presidency, like an Obama era fantasy 

The Black Lives Matter protests that followed the murder of George Floyd in May brought terms like  systemic racism into popular usage.

Amid this racial reckoning, the import of '' Hamilton '' was up for debate.

For some commentators, the power of '' Hamilton'' remained undiminished, perhaps even augmented. It wasn't '' just a classic American musical ,'' the culture critic Soraya Nadia McDonald wrote :

It could also '' act as an antidote to white fear.''

Others, though, contended that the musical's inclusive casting masked the complicity of all the Founders in establishing the system of racial injustice that the Black Lives Matter movement opposed.

The left-wing provocateur Ishmael Reed reposted a piece he'd written when the show premiered, titled  '' Black Actors Dress Up Like Slave Traders .......... and it's not Halloween.''

This time, he found a more receptive audience for his critique.

The World Students Society thanks Daniel Pollack-Pelzner.