We watched the Oscars sporadically this evening. Delighted that Emma Stone won for Poor Things. Terrific and strange movie. She was great in it.
Megan and I went to Oppenheimer when I was visiting her in Orlando some months ago. We walked out an hour into it. The movie seemed to start in the middle and I never identified with any of the characters. Yet, I loved Christopher Nolan’s Inception and Memento. But this? No way.
When Megan insisted we go see Barbie, I figured okay, but I honestly wasn’t enthused. And yet, when the movie was finished, I felt it was one of the best movies I’d ever seen. It made more than $1.5 billion at the box office, so a lot of moviegoers agreed. But the only thing the movie won tonight was for best song. Greta Gerwig, who directed it, didn’t win a damn thing.
Oppenheimer is about war, nukes, a man’s world.
Barbie is about women and their interactions with people – both men and women. It doesn’t surprise me that Gerwig wasn’t nominated for anything. I look around at where American society is now in relation to women – their rights stripped from them by men on the supreme court, on the Alabama supreme court, by nominee trump, by Florida’s terrible governor DeSantis- and it both saddens and enrages me that I had more rights growing up than my 34-year-old daughter has now.
And yet, Hollywood is referred to as liberal.
But it looks like Hollywood is a huge mirror of American society as it is now.
