The Oscars' Gauzy Take on Intersectionality
On its biggest night, Hollywood stressed inclusion: from a gentle and safe distance.
It’s the coalition that might just save America: queer people, black people, fish people. In the Best Picture winner, , a mute maid, her gay best friend, her African American co-worker, and a merman team up to escape the menace of a straight white guy who works for the government. Though the period film laced with classic-cinema references had been knocked as a fairly safe,consensus pick—and its success on Sunday confirms that read—it’s certainly not an apolitical one. On the red carpet, director Guillermo del Toro said the film was about “empathy for the other.” Accepting the award for directing, he talked about how the movies are like a rainbow utopia: “The
