Woke Hollywood has no argument with any movie making big money, but Micheal is, from a certain avoidance perspective, an ethically barren, morally gutted film — a massive exercise in denial that basically says “forget about all that gnarly kid-diddling stuff…just have fun with the music and dancing and adoration of the fans.”
Like I’ve already said a couple of times, I can enjoy Michael for the cool sections by simply locking the child-perv stuff into a steel lockbox and dropping it into the trunk of my car in the parking lot. And that’s how most of American will respond to this, trust me.
But not the Academy. The woke scolds will tell each other that it can’t be nominated for anything because of the bad optics.
Jaafar Jackson for Best Actor? I don’t think so as his casting was obviously an inside family job. He delivers a grade-A impersonation, true, and he looks fine but he’s not really pretty enough. He doesn’t have the Real MCoy’s soulful cow eyes, and without Michael makeup he looks like Pauly Shore.
At the end of the day nominating Jaafar would be, in effect, a roundabout endorsement of Michael‘s audacious perversity. I don’t think the Academy will want to applaud this.
Friendo: “I’ve seen more than one tweet comparing this to a biopic about Hitler that leaves out the fact that he was a Nazi.”