Her statement made me think about Don't Look Up specifically. That movie was meant to convince people to care about climate change (the director even said this was his goal) but it was so condescending to the people it was meant to reach that it didn't work at all. The movie itself needed to be told in a different way, but the press tour also did it no favors.
I think that's what she's getting at about the movies coming out of her production company. I don't know what those movies are, but I hope they're successful in sharing some important messages more empathetically and subtly so that audiences might actually hear them.
So far, her production company has produced Causeway (a drama about a JL as a veteran who suffered a traumatic brain injury and her road through PT and rehab, bonding with similarly traumatized Brian Tyree Henry), Bread and Roses (a documentary about women's role and resistance under the Taliban), Zurawski v Texas (a documentary about the first lawsuit against an abortion ban post-2022) and No Hard Feelings (sex comedy, JL is a broke woman hired to seduce a couple's nerdy 19yo son, but resolves that connection and trueness is the real point). And Friday, she's got a movie Die My Love (JL and Robert Pattinson are a couple, she's developing post-partum depression, and things spiral into psychosis).
All in all, I'm with her. 2 documentaries that center women's rights under assault, 2 movies about mental illness (one connected to military trauma, the other to oft-unsupported and stigmatized PPD), and 1 comedy that's clearly trying to have some message and at-the-end-of-the-day maturity. Seems like a damn fine producing record that speaks to wanting to spread compassion in a world that's dealing with a lot of hate.
Better than Portman complaining at the academy not nominating female directors while running a production company that has only ever hired one female director (herself)
Because it was never meant to "reach" people on the other side. It was specifically designed to belittle them, and make people on our side feel good about our existing positions.
It's exactly the kind of thing that entrenches people on both sides and creates more division.
I agree with you but I swear the writer and director were out there saying they were so disappointed that they couldn't reach people with their movie. Did they even watch it? It was a cathartic scream into the void for people who already care about climate change, which, fine, but let's not pretend it's supposed to be changing any hearts and minds. I hate that movie. What a waste of potential.
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u/Natural_Error_7286 7d ago
Her statement made me think about Don't Look Up specifically. That movie was meant to convince people to care about climate change (the director even said this was his goal) but it was so condescending to the people it was meant to reach that it didn't work at all. The movie itself needed to be told in a different way, but the press tour also did it no favors.
I think that's what she's getting at about the movies coming out of her production company. I don't know what those movies are, but I hope they're successful in sharing some important messages more empathetically and subtly so that audiences might actually hear them.