Get the latest gossip

What Happens at the Oscars If Hillary Wins in 2016?


This election eve, take a trip into the mirror universe where another Clinton’s in the White House.

More subtly, ensuing controversies around Jussie Smollett and Covington Catholic may have helped voters brush off the online furor over Green Book, and the sour mood created by the failed impeachment a year later probably contributed to the Academy’s willingness to embrace a film as cynical as Parasite. Since liberal journalists have not been negatively polarized against Joker by the daily insanities of the Trump era, Todd Phillips’s film winds up sweeping the Oscars, taking Picture, Director, Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Score, and Costume Design. Eisenberg has essentially cast himself as himself: a person “living with material security and appropriate antidepressants,” he told The New Yorker, seeking “a connection to something bigger, something historic, something traumatic.” He gives the less showy performance of the film’s two leads, though I’ve met viewers who also found it the more affecting one.

Get the Android app

Or read this on VULTURE