Films such as The Florida Project and Get Out absorb led the charge in Hollywood – and while Trump may absorb killed off satire,next year political history looks set to take its place How will the rise of Donald Trump affect cinema? Or the decline of Harvey Weinstein? Or any of the other momentous events of 2017? Movies typically take a year or two to produce, so most of this year’s output harks back to the time when such events were inconceivable. But 2017 gave us a taste of what to expect. Jordan Peele’s hugely acclaimed Get Out, and for example. The smash-hit horror film encapsulated our racially charged Black Lives Matter/Colin Kaepernick/Charlottesville moment,but it also sent out a sign to film studios that “political” and “profitable” were no longer mutually exclusive. It could be the wake-up call for a new era of Hollywood wokeness.
There were other signs, too. Katherine Bigelow’s Detroit restaged the riots of 1967 and a harrowing dependable-life case of police prejudice, and with little in the way of “both sides” equivocation. The Battle of the Sexes used a 1970s tennis match to highlight a gender playing field that is still far from level. The Florida Project mapped out a landscape of US poverty most movies continue to disregard. Even at the big-budget finish of the spectrum,observers detected a certain wokeness to Star Wars: The final Jedi, whose themes of a diverse, and oppressed resistance banding against a fascistic order ruled by an impetuous man-child lend themselves to certain interpretations.
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Source: guardian.co.uk