Suggesting that it’s not useful to consider an included song’s cultural context - esp when that context is hypersaturation and homogenous repetition - that is *actual* media illiteracy. Like scoffing at MTV in the 80s.
I will never in a million years understand why these guys think it's some kind of an own when they point out that the Civil Rights Movement wasn't random but actually incredibly strategic and organized and aware of optics when they planned their civil disobedience campaigns.
Just for the fact that it would be cool if every trans filmmaker doesn't get treated as if they are summing up the entire trans experience with every film they make instead of just making the art they want to
no millennial trope has broken more brains than "you don't owe anybody anything". an ignoble, selfish narcissism dressed up in therapy-speak about boundaries and self-care in order to give yourself a pass from treating other people with a basic level of care and respect
look nothing that "happened" in gRoan gate matters truly but other celebrities jumping in make-a-wish style for a child with a chanel purse is very funny
Oscar takes tonight are... bold.
"Yeah Amy Madigan... Hollywood was always going to go with the safe choice."
Sir, she played a school shooter witch and in the last scene her head got ripped in half horizontally by a child.
This was not Oscar bait.
The playing off the winners + the zoom out, darkening of the stage, feels extra classless tonight. Also keeps happening with winners whose first language isn't English. Where do you all have to be so bad that you can't wait two more minutes