Let’s Pretend Everything Is Wonderful!
Let’s have a big party! We’ll wear our fanciest, most expensive clothes. And everyone will arrive wearing big, toothy smiles and sparkly jewelry. We’ll seem exceedingly happy and giddy with excitement. Cameras will capture our most beautiful poses for all the world to see.
Who is ‘all the world’? People who are behaving true to nature instead of seeming exceedingly happy. Those who wear regular clothes and average smiles. People who sport an average amount of less sparkly jewelry.
Wait — why are we having a big, fancy party for an audience of average people leading average lives? Because we’re celebrities and our work is so very important to the average person.
The party is the annual award ceremony for the Oscars. As Bill Maher pointed out, this party was to celebrate the best movies of the year that included a collection of stories about loss, poverty, murder, dementia and sickness.
Even if the movies were breathtakingly entertaining and uplifting, why would the producers think people would want to see the award ceremony? Instead of watching movies — especially since many movie theaters remain closed or open to limited audiences — we’ve been watching videos of funeral pyres in India. We’ve seen news stories about businesses that have closed and watched interviews of jobless people scrambling to find ways to cope.
Every day, we see or read news about the virus variants and the impact that the coronavirus has had on industry, supply chains and people from every corner of the world.
How? How does anyone think the average person cares to see fancy people in fancy outfits showing toothy grins to the cameras? Even the most celebrity-loving amongst us lost their appetite to watch the beautiful people enjoy a magic evening as the rest of the world suffers. The irony that they are all dressed up to honor such sad movies is the cherry on top.
Movies can help us detach from reality, but movie actors and producers are so detached from reality that its insulting. Average people are dealing with real problems and real challenges. They are trying to keep their jobs and care for their kids. We are all challenged to find and buy food and supplies.
There are so many unknowns and so many threats to our way of life and return to normalcy.
Is it really hard to believe that the average person doesn’t care at all about the big fancy party the movie industry throws for itself? I guess they are really adept at creating a pretend world.
