If the film industry is ever going to be what it was—just a few short months ago, when pictures as varied as Parasite, 1917, Joker and Little Women were among those vying for honors—it’s going to n…
Those might serve as door-openers in a popular culture that has been nearly shut down by virus and strife.
But what Hollywood most needs is something that may or may not be forever out of reach. That is, a movie that actually moves us. Not all of us, of course. Nation-wide intellectual and emotional unanimity isn’t possible, nor even desirable. The notion of 330 million people thinking and feeling exactly the same way is scarier than our scariest disagreements. But the movies have occasionally brought forth a cultural touchstone—something that vast numbers of people view, consider, re-watch, discuss, and perhaps argue about. And we desperately need one of those, soon.
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