Today, the United States and the world are experiencing an unprecedented financial crisis. The source of this crisis is exactly the same as the previous ones - from the institutional flaws of capitalism. Big capitalists use the powerful capital in their hands to greedily seek virtual profits, causing ordinary people at the bottom to be exhausted. For many years, Hollywood has been releasing similar Mont Kiara films during the financial crisis. In 1929, 1940, 1959 and 1980, there were corresponding boutique films. This type of film focuses on family, love, kindness of human nature, and struggle with nature, providing warmth to the underprivileged in difficult times. The James Stewart mentioned in this film is starred in "Mary Poppins" to heal people's pain under the financial crisis.
However, today's financial tsunami in 2008 is different from previous financial crises. Today's lower class is not some foreign immigrant with low education and no information. It is the middle class with a college degree and many years of work experience. They will not be moved by the fairy tale world depicted in the movie, and they also know that the culprits of the financial crisis are the greedy capitalists and the political figures who will always stand with them. Their attention is not diverted, they are not anesthetized.
So the same theme, the same warmth, the same funny but no response from Stewart. And those light-hearted and exaggerated jokes give people the feeling of grandstanding; those deliberately innocuous difficulties make people scoff at childishness. In the past financial crisis, the best industries were wine and movies. Hollywood has spent many golden years during the financial crisis, and countless superstars such as Chaplin, Stewart and Gregory were born at this time. However, now there is a clear sense of fatigue. This is the worst of times and the best of times, and Hollywood needs to start to reflect, and the misallocation of resources from stars, directors, and writers over the years needs to change. The status of screenwriters needs to be completely improved, while actors and directors need more independent thinking and creative courage.
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