Friendo: “Right now Sentimental Value is one of the most profound arguments against AI. Whatever you may feel about Chat GPT 5, Grok 4, Claude 4.5, Deepseek R1 and Gemini 2.0, they can’t replicate what Sentimental Value holds and nurtures and quietly delivers in a couple of hundred different ways.”
I’ll finally be seeing Joachim Trier‘s film again tomorrow night (Wednesday at 7:15 pm)…my first and only previous viewing was six months ago in Cannes.
Am I sorry that director-cowriter Trier didn’t write a role for an obese, wheelchaired LGBTQ-of-color character? Or that he didn’t least insert a South Korean maid who gets stuck in a heavy rainstorm while shopping? Am I sorry that he decided against making Stellan Skarsgard‘s paterfamilias into a late-blooming homosexual (like Chris Plummer in Beginners)? Yes, I’m sorry for this…all of it. Because Sentimental Value would have a much better chance of taking the Best Picture Oscar if he’d constructed his film with a nice, diverse Wicked: For Good attitude.
Too many white Norweigans = definite Academy issues.
