The real problem with “Wokeness” in Hollywood

The first 25 min of the film I genuinely asked “is this a comedy” the stereotypes are insane.…

Confusing trash…. This movie is jumbled confusing trash…

7:37 FIONA APPLE FD, FIONA APPLEEE

I didn’t make it past the first 20 minutes. I was so turned off by the depiction of black women I had to hit eject.

I thought the most prescient aspect of One Battle was the white supremacist group being called The Christmas Adventurer Club.
Because that is essentially American conservatism – white guys who desire to remake the country into what they thought it was when they believed in Santa Clause. The innocence of a time when they did not have to think about the fact that the country was built on the backs of slaves.

What is wrong in this society where it’s not ok for someone to say “I didn’t like this film”. I disliked One Battle After Another and I’m not afraid to stand by that. Everyone is allowed an opinion. If you don’t like it, go read another opinion. The movie was gross in the beginning, offensive to me as a Black woman. After that it was entertaining and dumb.

7:19 holy shit

I got exactly 12 minutes into this film and had to switch it off, the beginning was too degrading—shockingly, dementedly degrading—to black women, and it just felt like Hollywood can’t depict us with any kind of respect. A friend told me to hang in there, the film gets better, but I couldn’t imagine how. I’m heartbroken it’s a Paul Thomas Anderson film, I usually love his films, but, I guess I should have known he was one of them…

holding onto GameStop stocks was righteous, as resistance to predatory market manipulation that's illegal in every other country

Goes soft is extraterrestrial lol

I like this analysis but I think to add another perspective onto this topic is a video called "Just Say You Hate Women (in Film): Perfidia Beverly Hills" by Lani's lens. She directly responds to this argument by critiquing the way Black representation is policed, respectability, etc. It's really interesting and I think it makes the conversation a lot more nuanced!

Omg please talk about how The Drama completely decontextualizes the VERY white boy coded issue of school shootings and put them in the hands of the demographic LEAST likely to commit them in order to treat it as an edgy moral dilemma and make the shooter the most sympathetic person in the film. Please, I'm a teacher, I hate this movie so effing much

Regina Hall not King

I love Paul Thomas Anderson, and One Battle was a good movie overall (but not as great as the general public made it out imo). It just really feels like PTAs takes on leftist revolutionaries in general, and black women specificially, are extremely boomer-coded and 'old-fashioned' to the point of being a detriment for the narrative and overall quality of the movie. I think One Battle ended up as my least favorite PTA movie because of these questionable elements, which is a shame because thematically it promised to be very interesting and formally it was brillianty filmed and acted like all of his movies.

Yikes your description is not selling the movie

19:48 thats not what people are arguing, that the director cant possibly be racist. this is a straw man. the point is that if there are black women in the film that ARENT weird and crass like Perfidia and Jungle Pussy, hes not making any commentary that all black people are the same. Just like how Leonardo DiCaprios character being the most worthless loser of all time IS NOT a commentary saying that all white men are worthless and dumb. Youre looking at two characters you dont like and are assuming they are representative of the politics of the director, and representations of his racist views of a group of people. They are two out of many characters of the film. They dont represent all black women and arent intended to.

Just watched this movie and cant believe it beat out Sinners. I'm a gay "woke" boy but not in the liberal way, the progressive way. There were so many stupid character decisions, lack of character and lack of depth that represent real world experiences. I feel like Hollywood virtue signals from fake political stances, they dont believe in it they're just doing market appeasement. There need to be stories told by real representation. It was also way too boring too many times

Did we watch the same movie? I feel what I watched was so different I am starting to worry I fell asleep at the theater.

Do you ever notice that Hollywood is fine when it's an interracial couple that's a white man and a black woman, but they have no positive movies about an interracial couple when it's a black man and a white woman? Every time Thomas enter racial couple with a black man and a white woman, He has to GET OUT

I don't know if I was a unique case outside of the fact I could diagnose it (without being able to do anything about it) but… One of the parts of """woke""" that chased me away from engaging in leftist politics (When I was never right or even really center (and wasn't educated enough to understand this growing up)) wasn't just that it was clueless, but insincere. Driven by a profit motive to commodify and market identity back to the widest audience possible. That audience isn't white, but it's delusional idiots in corporate ecosystems making this kind of decision, and they're usually old or middle aged or otherwise sheltered white people. The kind of people who have no business selling You back to Yourself. Deep down, I recognized this, but I couldn't put it to words. Only have a quiet mental breakdown at the dissonance between the media everyone was fighting about (When I was convinced the "drama" was almost always PR manufactured guerilla marketing) and the reality I either knew or felt just well enough to understand I was being gaslighted into complying with 1 of 2 wrong answers.

It also probably didn't help that tumblr, social media algorythms drove me to have ptsd-like symptoms to just the slightest hint of politics and made me apolitical until I discovered Adam Curtis.

19:24 – 20:00 that kind of logic is how Quentin Tarantino has skated for all these years.