It must be a sad life to see everything through the distorted, narrow lens of race and Trump-hatred.

Los Angeles writer Jeff Firmin of BrightLightsFilm.com has written nearly 2000 words on a 2016 action-adventure film about Tarzan of the Apes, dissecting it in terms of not only of the racial issues he and other race-obsessed critics find in it, but in terms of its foreshadowing of the Trump presidency, the election for which came long after the film's release.

The Legend of Tarzan debuted almost exactly a year ago. Principal photography on it ended in October 2014, nearly a year before Donald Trump even announced his candidacy for President in June of 2015. And yet Jeff Firmin wants you to see the film as "a prediction, a prescient embodiment of one of the hidden hearts of our cultural moment, a foreshadowing of the outcome of the election that it preceded by only a matter of months."

Firmin exhausts the reader pontificating on what he calls the movie’s "troubling approach to race." I won't bore you with it here (I read it so you won't have to!) except to say that he claims the fictional Tarzan represents a "kind of Trumpian hero! A white man absolutely reduced by the henpecking demands of modern liberal civilization who rediscovers his power – and his ability to be magnanimous – by a return to the wilderness, to the battle, to the old sources of his dominance."

He goes on to list the endless tragedies of Africa -- "the apartheid of South Africa, the diamond lords of Namibia, the CIA’s adventures in west Africa, landmines in Mozambique, genocide in Rwanda, the recent chaos in Libya and Egypt, the near absolute oil-driven devastation of the Niger Delta, the environmental and human toll of generations of war, poverty, and usurpation, etc. etc." -- and then to claim that it takes "white privilege" to "make a film that invokes the real suffering of a continent as a backdrop for the story of their own journey from impotency to triumph."

For Firmin and the feverishly Trump-obsessed left, a Tarzan movie filmed long before Donald Trump was even on the political scene is nonetheless ominously symbolic of the white Trump's rise to power and the ways in which white privilege rewrites history (particularly the history of the Dark Continent).

It's a Tarzan movie, Mr. Firmin, a romantic action-adventure flick. Try not to read too much into it.