This week we will know the finalists in the various categories for the Oscars.
The best films I saw this year were Oppenheimer by Christopher Nolan and Killers of the Flower Moon by Martin Scorsese.
This year, for the first time, a film can only be nominated in the best film category if one of the main actors comes from a so-called “under-represented” minority.
Turnaround
What does this have to do with the artistic merit of the film? Absolutely none.
Those who are at the origin of this new mandatory criterion dream of extending it.
As everyone in this industry aspires to success, but is above all concerned not to be sidelined for ideological delinquency, they keep silent and follow.
We won’t go so far as to make Denzel Washington the leader of the Warsaw Jewish ghetto uprising, but more and more films could resemble the world synod of the disabled, deaf, mute, trans and non-binary, and too bad for plausibility.
The role of the villain will certainly be played by the white, heterosexual and “cisgender” man (new word for a man who “feels” masculine and a woman who feels feminine).
We already knew the depths of Hollywood hypocrisy.
We call ourselves green, but we travel by private jet.
We call ourselves feminists, but we turn a blind eye to sexual predators.
We call ourselves left-wing, but we have Mexican servants in 37-room castles.
The funny thing is, however, that Hollywood is sinking into the new religion of EDI (equity, diversity, inclusion) at a time when, in the United States, the counter-offensive is underway.
Tongues are loosened.
Finally, it is said that Claudine Gay, who has since left, would never have become president of Harvard if it had not been decided that the criterion of merit would be relegated very far to the background.
The Supreme Court struck down “race” discrimination policies in college admissions.
Several American universities have abandoned or are in the process of abandoning preferential hiring policies based on the EDI gospel and the hiring of bureaucrats to enforce them.
In the private sector, the “backlash” has also begun. Elon Musk, Bill Ackman and several others openly say that there is nothing positive about affirmative action, only discrimination.
Disney has coyly admitted that its films with “non-binary” characters have been flops.
In university management schools, new research, such as that of Jesse Fried or Frank Dobbin, reveals the sometimes harmful effects of these policies.
We knew it, but we didn’t dare say it.
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Obviously, Canada, still trailing the United States, is not there yet.
Some autistic people give the impression of not listening when someone speaks to them, of living in their own world, of being overly interested only in their affairs.
It is this disconnect that Hollywood illustrates.
In a few years, we will laugh about all this. Many will be embarrassed.