Posted on 05/01/2023 12:39:30 AM PDT by Ozguy1945
Today I have just seen the 2022 movie, Tar, a film by Tom Field, starring Cate Blanchett. It looks like a work of collaborative genius to me.
IMHO Western Society has become a destructive virtue-signaling tarpit in which men and women cannot be themselves. At the end of “Tar”, the heroine, Lydia Tar, escapes from the West to a country that looks like The Philippines.
Blanchett gives an astonishing performance as a brilliant, kind conductor and pianist, deeply committed to standards in her art and proud of her place in Western culture, but who loses her career when too many pressures from lesser, narrower PC minds push her too far and she snaps and assaults a man she believes stole her musical score.
This month, on Sunday week, it is Cate Blanchett’s birthday. So I want to pay tribute to this great Australian film maker on my own and with Melbourne and American on and offline friends.
I might be over simplifying in not giving a lot of credence to allegations against the conductor with respect to a younger, troubled artist who suicides, but allegations like that make me remember the importance of the presumption of innocence more than they push me to automatically, robotically follow the mantra (for some but not me) of “believe the (alleged) victim”.
May all real victims find peace and justice, as Lydia Tar perhaps does onscreen.
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In other words a female Harvey Weinstein.
But it is society that is at fault. Got it.
Thanks for your perspective.
I saw accusations of promiscuity.
I did not see the goading.
I saw her scare a bully away from.her daughter.
She vomited when shown Asian prostitution.
I give her the presumption of innocence.
The left loved this lesbian movie, this OP blog pimp really creeps out over females in his blog.
The left loved it and nominated it for everything possible, National Review mocked it.
Nominated for 6 Oscars
68 wins & 244 nominations total
Did this person see the same movie I saw? She didn’t escape to the Phillipines, she had no choice to gp because she torched her own career by her horrible behavior. Kind is not a word I would use to describe her.
Blanchett played a deeply flawed and unsympathetic character. Nevertheless, she was great in it (and I am not a particular Cate Blanchett fan). Should have won the Oscar hands down. I particularly enjoyed the flick as much of it was filmed in Berlin and just visited there last year.
Won’t ever watch this! BUT, Cate Blanchett is a great actress!
My favorite, The Missing, with Tommy Lee Jones.
Watched it 10 times at least.
Thanks for that review.
This was on our watch list - just haven’t gotten to it yet.
Will now remove.
The latest propaganda piece to have us accept socially unacceptable behavior and feel sorry for them. They want to turn us into defenders of the sexually perverse, separating that from all their other social behavior, so they can live out that perversion publicly. It doesn’t sound like a cautionary tale of how living in perversion might lead to bad anger management, poor choices and destroying one’s life.
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