Have you seen what happened to the Oscars? People have already a lot of real worries. Being lectured in places where you seek fun and escapism is not what all of us are looking for.
And the irony is that we have some great films that make very clear how escapism is the key to the success of the movie industry as a whole, such as The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) and, particularly, Hail, Caesar! (2016).
Some guy even noticed how "The Lord of the Rings" Trilogy, amid all his spectacular escapism, contains a lot of good life lessons. And which good movie/story doesn't? For sure, not the ones that lecture you.
Except Yoda. I will always accept a lecture from Yoda.
Wise, you are, young padawan.
As for me I'm totally ok with Hopkins getting the oscar despite being a leftist myself.
Maybe they should heed Sydney Pollack's suggestion to Dustin Hoffman in "Tootsie": "No one pays to see people who live next to chemical waste! They can see that in New Jersey!" - which is the perfect description of "Nomadland".
I liked Erin Brockovich, which was pretty much a movie about people living near chemical waste.
If anything, Erin Brockovich (or even, very recently, Black Waters) are movies that prove how you can be both relevant and involving by building a strong story, with strong characters, based on facts. Same with movies set in other setting, like The Big Short.
These Oscars were an assault of wokeism both in the selected movies and the embarrassing speeches given by the presenters and the winners.
"We are mourning the loss of so many, and I have to be honest, if things had gone differently this past week in Minneapolis I may have traded in my heels for marching boots"...Said Regina King while wearing a dress by Louis Vuitton with 62,000 Sequins and 3,900 Crystals. The speech (along with many other lectures) was given from Union Station, L.A., after the homeless living in the area were forced to relocate
by the Police (lo!) who then erected a wall around it (the irony of this is off the scale).
The viewers? They tuned out to see something else. People are more smarter and fed up that the Woke movement is realising. All we need to look for is if their tone-deafness will be stronger than their money losses.