“ Alex Garland is a 50-something English guy still married to his first wife, not a Hollywood dumpster fire clown…”
Yeah. I do see his wife is making a film about Frida Kahlo, Mexican millionaire Marxist.
“ He also guessed that the Texas-California alliance, which EVERYONE thinks is bizarro world crazy, might be a deliberate attempt to scramble the political equation…”
That seems obvious. Like plausible deniability.
I see that Alex Garland's wife is English-Mexican, so it's perhaps not surprising that she gravitated to a Mexican subject. I have no idea about her politics, but I wouldn't be surprised if she's a leftie.
I've only seen a couple of Garland's movies. He leans towards sci fi. I highly recommend Never Let Me Go.
Do you ever watch the Film Threat guys? The YouTube algorithm is doing what the algorithms do, which is feeding me more and more of what I watched last time, so I am now getting a steady stream of the "Die, Woke Hollywood, Die" stuff. I don't watch most of it, but I dive into a few pieces if a title catches my eye. Over time I've found a few commentators who seem to me to be on target. Film Threat is in this group. They're too pop culture oriented for me to invest too much time, but they are solid on DEI, Woke Hollywood, last year's strikes, Disney, etc.
Like many of the others, they publish in multiple formats. I have no use for the very long roundtable discussions -- maybe there's a drive time audience for that, but it's not for me -- but they will then excerpt and edit shorter pieces which are often quite good. This one is recent, within the last day or two. Pick it up around 4:10 if you don't want to watch the whole thing.
The headline is misleading. This short piece is focused on the "DEI Putting Creatives Out of Work" part of what was presumably a longer piece. Note that none of the people in the linked video are the executives who caused the problem; they are the worker bees who don't get golden parachutes and are stuck paying the price. Stick with it long enough to hear Ng's summary judgment: what do the people in the linked video have in common, besides being out of work; and -- while he sympathizes with people losing their jobs, their homes and their careers because they are the targets of a racist purge -- most of them probably voted for Obama, so they brought it on themselves. I note this simply as a hint to the political orientation in play if you aren't familiar with these guys.