Personally, I won't be watching this one. Outside of Following and The Prestige, I've never been a fan of Nolan and his works. The trailer told me what I needed to know; that it would be another bog-standard Nolan film; a compelling premise unfortunately wrapped up in pretentious pseudo-intellectualism, an insecurity that runs through nearly his entire filmography of being stuck between wanting to be big blockbusters, but also artsy and "serious".
On the debate over the controversy this film has started; my only real input on that; is for me I just don't like all the hypocrisy around "accurate portrayals of history/cultures/folklores" etc. This isn't a new thing either, anyone whose paid attention will have noticed this has been happening for over 15 years now.
I really saw talk of that live action remake of Moana and how people were praising it for how it shows Polynesian culture, noting the cast is made up almost entirely (except for one) of people of indigenous Oceanian descent. Other films based on African or various Asian cultures are also often praised for these aspects, but yet for films, or anything really, based on European cultures, histories and folklores; it's seen as a bad thing to be accurate or faithful in the same way. Look at Robert Eggers' The Northman from a few years ago. That stood out as being a very faithful depiction of Scandinavian cultures from that time period, as well as being based on the legend of Amleth, an extremely influential piece of Norse folklore, but yet he got A LOT of backlash for having an all white, mostly European, cast.
That's really all it is for me; the hypocrisy and inconsistency of people and how they apply their standards to things.
