Is Barbie the supreme post-#MeToo architect of white-guy-despising or white-guy-pitying cinema? Which isn’t to say, of course, that white-male behaviors haven’t generally warranted enormous enmity and condemnation over the centuries. Too many men are dogs, animals, wolves, brutes. We all know this.
Then again when, you could also note or at least ask, have older white guys not played proverbial villains? But over the last decade or so leftist Hollywood ideology has steadily and persistently maintained that older white guys are the main bringers of toxicity, venality, ignorance, arrogance and immaturity. Call them a basic proverbial problem afflicting everyone and everything — a “theme” that isn’t likely to change anytime soon.
And yet the persistence and dependability factors alone naturally reduce dramatic engagement — how could they not?
There are two major films opening later his year in which — in script form, at least — a deceptive, two-faced white guy is revealed to have behaved like a sexual scumbag, and is in fact a ground-zero shithead. You’ll know them when they open. How many have there been since ’15 or thereabouts?