Laura Dern, Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon and other actresses on stage receiving award for Big Little Lies, their winning TV series. A clutch of successful and privileged and self-pitying beauties totally removed from ordinary people’s lives.
This year's Golden Globe Awards, with its unchallenged support for the #MeToo movement, was a wretched spectacle, Hollywood and identity politics at their worst. The smug crowd of millionaires, and in the case of Oprah Winfrey, a billionaire, expected viewers to believe that the "MeToo" movement constituted an epic chapter in the struggle for human liberation.
The self-absorption, self-obsession and endless self-pity of these people was ridiculous, pathetic, and utterly inappropriate.
Amidst all the misery in the world, including the impending deportation of 200,000 Salvadorans, the devastation produced by US militarism and aggression across the globe, the thousands of Americans dying from drug overdoses and a hundred other social atrocities, the Hollywood celebrities devoted an entire evening of prime-time television to feeling sorry for themselves.
It is no wonder that the American film industry seems incapable, except for rare exceptions, of producing decent work. Its concerns are trivial and misdirected, or worse.
The actual handing out of awards, deserved and undeserved, was overshadowed by the sexual misconduct witch-hunt and the overwhelming stamp of approval that the film and television industry gave it Sunday night.
Comment: What people choose to do is, of course, their own business but their turning to witchcraft has less to do with Trump forcing their hand and more to do with their own fragile emotions, desire for control and inability to cope with disappointment and discomfort.