For months honest, down-to-earth people have been saying that Celine Song‘s Past Lives is fine but calm down. But agenda-driven critics, various friends of A24 and industry elites pushing gender and identity activism have refused to back down, and so Past Lives has won the Best Film award at the Independent Spirit Awards.
The Past Lives fix has been in all year long…we all know that…sensitive emotions, understatement, South Korean female director…locked in tight.
Once upon a time the Spirit Awards were known as the “indie Oscars”. This handle was generally accepted — indeed celebrated — between the early ’90s to mid 20teens. But that ship began to leave port when the woke virus infected everything starting in ’17 and especially after the leadership overturned the apple cart by destroying gender acting categories.
I’m not kidding or exaggerating — talent + marketing & publicity are still playing along because “where’s the harm?”, but the Spirits have gone totally wacko, and nobody cares what they think (not really) because they’re encamped on planet Pluto.
And you know what the tragic aspect is? The Spirit Awards couldn’t get back to normal (i.e., the way things were before 2016 or thereabouts) if they wanted to. Their feet are stuck in Crazyland cement and they can’t return as the trans community nutters and their friends would burn the tent down if the Spirits tried to modify. They’ve totally fucked themselves because now everyone (not just HE) thinks of them as the Branch Davidians of the award-season realm.
The Spirit organization will persist because of the liberal elite emotional investment factor, but they’re as dead as the Sundance Film Festival…they’ve woked themselves into a corner, and all they have to look forward are cast-iron woke chains around their ankles.
