Healing the Monsters of the Id

If there has been a common theme in certain segments of the media and here at The Everyman, it is that “Hollywood has stopped making good movies.” Hollywood suffers from what author Declan Finn calls “BS fatigue,” which includes “crappy writing, girl bosses (but I repeat myself), and various other nonsense,” as well as “the message” being shoved down audience’s throats. In an effort to invigorate the industry and address this fatigue, independent film studios and producers have gone back to basics and are now concentrating on attempting to tell great and moving stories. Sometimes they do so with financial backing, such as with Angel Studios’ Bonhoeffer or Cabrini, and other times on a shoestring, crowdfunded budget such as Triumph of the Heart. But the films that ultimately succeed and do well at the boxoffice do so because they are offer the kinds of stories that Hollywood is (oftentimes intentionally) refusing to tell.