It is utterly grotesque & irresponsible that Joyce Carol Oates will casually brand a classicist, scholar & professor "MAGA" for the unforgivable sin of daring to criticize a popular blockbuster movie.
Irresponsible, revealing & humiliating even.
You do not have to put weight into Emily Wilson’s review or agree with her opinions on Nolan’s Odyssey. But you also cannot shame her or devalue her skills as a writer and scholar, because she won’t validate your own views on the movie.
@rowdyburns1978@GavidDreybeard ...and a random twitter user who's a fan of films knows more than the person who studies the topic of the film professionally why....? if their opinion doesn't matter then why are you all so butthurt about it
Here's my final word: both the success of the Nolan Odyssey and Emily Wilson's cranky review are good. They are signs of a somewhat healthy-adjacent public intellectual culture.
Most films today have awful dialogue because of this attitude: many filmmakers & filmgoers think of cinema as mainly a visual medium & thus think it doesn't matter when the dialogue is badly written; they then dismiss critics of dialogue as not engaging with the film as a film.