The Oscars: Why Hollywood Remains A Dangerous Place For The Creation Of
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The Academy Awards were last night, and the awards show was less of a
failure than usual; it was more entertaining than usual.
Sure, it was still roughly nine hours long, but it had its moments.
First, “Oppenheimer” did really well. The film walked away with Best
Picture, Christopher Nolan properly won best director, Cillian Murphy
came away with Best Actor, and Robert Downey Jr. walked away with Best Supporting Actor.
My second main concern was seeing the film “Barbie” fail. I got my
wish. It did not do well. It won one award, Best Original Song, which
is the only Oscar that “Barbie” should have been up for in the first
place.
The highlight of the Oscars award evening was John Mulaney, who was
genuinely funny. He should definitely host the Oscars next year.
With all that said, the Oscars show is still a trash fire filled with
trash human beings.
That is the message for today. Hollywood is a place filled with people
who do not share your values. They do not like your values. They are
very beautiful and very glamorous people — and they have very, very
small moral brains. Their small moral brains are not capable of
understanding the world around them.
They live in this little artistic bubble, the Bohemian grove of Los
Angeles, in which everyone is tolerant of everyone else’s excesses and
in which everyone thinks exactly the way they do.
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Here’s the way Hollywood thinks of itself: If everyone would think like Hollywood does, they, too, would have massively dysfunctional
marriages, drug problems, and screwed-up children. Then everything
would be better.
They are the expositor of higher morality to you, the tiny little
peons, the humdrum little people. There was a lot of that last night.
Jimmy Kimmel should never host the Oscars again. He is not good at
hosting the Oscars because he’s an unpleasant human being.
But the real lack of morality at the Oscars arose because Hollywood has
decided to root for Hamas.
Granted, that is not a great shock.
Since October 7, I have been repeatedly making the point that for the
West, it really is not about what’s happening between Israel and Hamas.
The real conflict happening in the West is a conflict over our own
moral value system. If we cannot see the distinction between Israel and
Hamas, if hundreds of thousands of young people are marching in the
streets in support of an actual, honest to God, genocidal terror group
— who rapes women, murders babies, and throws gay people off of
buildings on the routine and wants to maintain control of the Gaza
Strip — and those young people and other people in the West are rooting
for them, that says something about the vacuum at the heart of the
West.
If a moral conflict exists over that particular conflict, then that demonstrates a lackluster moral center in the West, which will lead to
the dissolution of the West as a whole. Any civilization that cannot
tell the difference between Israel and Hamas is a civilization that is
doomed to decline and disrepair.
Naturally, Hollywood is on the side of Hamas, with a bunch of moral
idiots who were wearing Gaza cease-fire pins. It’s important to
understand that when they call for a cease-fire, what they really mean
is that they want to leave Hamas in place in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas is currently holding 134 hostages; we don’t know how many are
alive and how many are dead. They are holding women, elderly, and
babies in captivity. They have raped an enormous number of these women.
When these people want a cease-fire and they try to put pressure on
Israel, they’re neglecting the point that Hamas has rejected every
cease-fire proposal that takes them out of power.
There were a bunch of dolts wearing cease-fire pins at the Oscars,
Billie Eilish and Mark Ruffalo among them. Of course, Ruffalo is just a
full-on anti-Semite at this point. He has been anti-Israel and anti-
Semitic for years and years.
But the greatest exemplar of a person with no moral character and no
moral spine at the Oscars, a simply anti-moral person, was Jonathan
Glazer, the director of a movie called “Zone of Interest.”
“Zone of Interest” is an excellent film about the Hess family. Rudolf
Hess was the head of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The movie is
about the Hess family living at Auschwitz in a house; the entire movie
is just the family at the house. In the movie, the Holocaust doesn’t
exist — except we know the Holocaust exists in the background. There is
a smokestack and people randomly screaming in the background; shots are
heard far away. The movie is quite good because it demonstrates how
easy it is for people to ignore a Holocaust that’s happening — as long
as they benefit from it and get to enjoy their lives.
The entire movie is about the banality of evil. But then Glazer won an
Oscar and got a chance to speak.
And here’s the thing: Jonathan Glazer is the villain in his own movie,
and he doesn’t even know it.
Here’s what Glazer said in his Oscars speech:
Thank you to the Academy for this honor and to our partners
A24, Film4, Access, and Polish Film Institute; to the
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum for their trust and guidance;
to my producers, actors, and collaborators. All our choices
were made to reflect and confront us in the present — not to
say, “Look what they did then,” rather, “Look what we do now.”
Our film shows where dehumanization leads, at its worst. It
shaped all of our past and present. Right now we stand here as
men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being
hijacked by an occupation, which has led to conflict for so
many innocent people. Whether the victims of October the 7 in
Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza, all the victims of this
dehumanization, how do we resist? Aleksandra Bystron-
Kolodziejczyk, the girl who glows in the film, as she did in
life, chose to. I dedicate this to her memory and her
resistance. Thank you.
Glazer is moral trash. He is so because when he says he wants to refute
his own Jewishness and the Jewishness of the people who are standing
with him and the use of the Holocaust in order to defend what Israel is
doing right now, he’s the villain in his own film.
This is what happens on the Left. Dara Horn wrote a book called “People
Love Dead Jews.” Excellent book, uncomfortable title. She begins the
book by telling the story of the house occupied by Anne Frank while the
Nazis were looking for Jews in Amsterdam.
There’s a museum there now. A few years ago there was a major
controversy at the Anne Frank house. The major controversy was that
there was a young Orthodox Jewish child who was at the front door as a
greeter wearing his kippah — and people were uncomfortable with him
wearing his kippah. So, the Anne Frank house told the Jewish boy to
cover up his kippah. They told him to wear a baseball cap.
Dara Horn’s point is that people love dead Jews, meaning the best Jews
are the ones who are silent and dead, while the ones who are living and actually standing up for their own capacity to live, the ones who
actually defend themselves, _those_ are the Jews who make people like
Jonathan Glazer very uncomfortable.
The entirety of “Zone of Interest” is about the absence of Jews. Not a
Jew appears in the movie. The Jews are silent. Apparently, the best
Jews, according to Glazer, are the ones who are nameless, faceless, and
dead. Those are the ones who are really good because they’re victims.
Those are the ones whose bodies he can rifle through for an Oscar while simultaneously ignoring the Jews who are getting slaughtered in the
Gaza envelope, or the Jewish men who are being wounded or killed in the
Gaza Strip. He gets to sit there and morally preen; he gets to live in
his house amidst the chaos, ignoring the live Jews, the ones who are
actually screaming right now.
He can ignore those ones in favor of the dead Jews. That’s what he’s
doing.
When people use their Jewishness as a cover to rip on Israel’s capacity
to defend itself, they are virtually always people who don’t know
anything about Judaism. They are born Jewish but have very little
Jewish practice. They spend zero time in the Jewish community, but then
pull out their “as a Jew” card in order for them to demonstrate their
fealty to Left-wing principles or anti-Israel principles.
Whenever people say, “As a Jew,” you should ask them, “How often do you
go to synagogue? How much do you care about your Judaism? How much does
any of that mean to you?”
People like Glazer are part of this broad moral trash pantheon in
Hollywood, the system that believes the West itself is bad, the West
itself is the problem.
You don’t see Glazer talking about the evils of Hamas or the evils of
the Assad government in Syria. You see Glazer talking about Israel.
Why? Because he gets to rifle through the bodies, and he gets to look
good while being the villain in his own film.
Hollywood is completely disconnected from reality, but they do have an
impact on how people view morality.
And that is why Hollywood remains a dangerous place for the creation of culture.
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