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‘Stick-it-to-the-man sentiment’: Oscar-nominated films compete to bait Donald Trump
Almost all the shortlisted movies this year can be seen as a critique of the incoming president. Accident or design?
Photograph: Pief Weyman/APThe only film on this year’s lists that is more of an explicit attack on the new president is The Apprentice, Ali Abbasi’s unflattering biopic of the young Trump, focusing on his rise to power and ill-treatment of his then wife, Ivanka, and one-time mentor, the lawyer Roy Cohn. The fruits of this movement are easy to spot: the historic best picture win for Parasite five years ago, as well as significant victories for the likes of Roma, Minari, Drive My Car, All Quiet on the Western Front, Anatomy of a Fall, Past Lives and The Zone of Interest. “A remarkable consensus has crystallised among a small number of movies that, in one way or another – whether with bold artistry or conventional methods, realistic stories or fantasies – embody, display, or at least appear to celebrate the liberal values of pluralism, equality, and resistance to the arrogance of power, be it political or economic.
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