Bright is quite the movie, taking on very modern issues in a fantasy setting. The main theme throughout the movie is that orcs are the minority race. Every other race, being the humans, the elves, and the fairies. The whole movie, the main orc, Nick Jackoby, just wants to be a police officer. It is what he has wanted to do this whole life, but he is constantly being berated by the humans that he works with. It takes the whole journey one police call turning into a whole fiasco involving a magic wand for him to prove that he is really worthy to be a police officer.
This type of setup is analogous to the race struggle in America. People of African American descent had been fighting for civil rights since slavery had been abolished in the United States. Though I cannot say things are truly equal for all individuals, regardless of race or ethnicity, but the movie parallels one giant event that turned the favor onto the side of the oppressed. That incident in the movie being when Jackoby is being slammed by people of his own race that he would never be one of them, as it is not alright in orc culture to conform with other cultures. Jackoby states earlier in the movie that being a police officer is all that he has wanted in life, and he wants to prove that he is worthy of wearing a police badge. A gang leader of his own race kills him. However, he is brought back from the dead with the help of a magic wand, which fulfills a prophecy. He is now respected by all of his fellow orcs in what he is capable of (Bright).
The closest thing to this in the real world was the “I have a Dream” speech by Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lincoln Memorial. This speech rallied many oppressed individuals, allowing their voices to be heard. Bright cleverly comments on progressing forward towards equality though the use of the fantasy gene. If you are in any way interested in human rights, this is a great movie to watch.
Ayer, David, director. Bright. Bright, Netflix.
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