A Return to Heroism

Hollywood is a strange business these days. Every entertainment corporation bet on streaming in the COVID era, which made it seem as though the change begun by Netflix would quickly lead to an entirely new America. Billions were spent on something many of us loathe, a vision where Americans are reduced to consuming content on screens, mostly alone and often distracted, chatting about it all on social media, chasing trends, isolated from a world they increasingly treat with despair, hysteria, or panic. This is the death of cinema, of anything memorable, and maybe the death of American freedom. Happily, it’s not happening just yet!