{"id":198640,"date":"2019-11-30T07:45:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T07:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=198640"},"modified":"2019-12-04T06:16:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T06:16:26","slug":"this-review-of-ford-v-ferrari-reflects-the-absurdity-of-movie-critics-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=198640","title":{"rendered":"This Review of \u201cFord v Ferrari\u201d Reflects the Absurdity of Movie Critics Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

This review of the movie \u201cFord v Ferrari\u201d (which is about the auto industry in the 1960s) frowned on the fact that it mostly featured \u201cstraight white men\u201d. It also called the entire auto industry a \u201cpatriarchal wasteland\u201d. This is the sad state of \u201cmovie critics\u201d today.<\/h4>\n

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Vigilant Citizen \u2013 Nov 29, 2019<\/h1>\n

Confession: I enjoy reading movie reviews. I particularly enjoy reading critics who take the time to rip apart a bad movie or, conversely, those who explain exactly how a movie is a masterpiece. In fact, I sometimes find myself more entertained by the criticism of a movie than the movie itself.<\/h5>\n
However, nowadays, some movies are being ripped apart for the wrong reasons. And others are being praised for the same wrong reasons. Why? Because the entire \u201cmovie critic\u201d business is being taken over by an \u201cagenda police\u201d that grades movies according to their compliance to and agenda, and nothing else.<\/h5>\n
In my article about the movie Joker<\/span><\/em><\/a>, I stated:<\/h5>\n
In this day and age, mass media critics do not evaluate movies by their artistic merit, but by the direction of their political message. To be deemed \u201cgood\u201d, a movie needs to check a list of \u201cagenda\u201d boxes.<\/h5>\n
With that being said, I recently came across a review of the movie Ford v Ferrari<\/em><\/a> <\/span>that perfectly illustrates this fact \u2013 to a point that it is nearly infuriating. The title alone transformed my head into a giant question mark: \u201cFord v Ferrari depicts a generation of \u2018car guys\u2019 best left in the past<\/em>\u201d<\/h5>\n
What? Why?<\/h5>\n

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Why would a \u2018car guy\u2019 generation be best left in the past? Why would any generation be \u201cbest left in the past\u201d when it comes to movies? Even the worst chapters in world history can make great movies. So why should a movie about the trailblazers of the auto industry be \u201cleft in the past\u201d? Well, according to the subtitle, it is because most of the people in the movie (and in the auto industry in the 1960s) were \u201cwhite males\u201d. And, according to the author Hannah Elliot, that fact alone makes the movie bad.<\/h5>\n
When one musters the courage the read the entire thing, this \u201creview\u201d of a fun movie about fast cars turns into a hateful tirade against \u201cstraight white males\u201d, auto designer Carroll Shelby and the entire auto industry.<\/h5>\n
While I couldn\u2019t care less about the opinion of a single movie critic, these kinds of \u201creviews\u201d are becoming the norm. And the wider issue at hand is the active shunning of movies that do not pander to the agenda while underhandedly calling for censorship and the whitewashing of history.<\/h5>\n

Reviewing the Review<\/h2>\n

Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not only the movie, the critical response to a movie reflects how the media is being used to shape and condition society. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198640"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198655,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198640\/revisions\/198655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}