If Cate Blanchett doesn’t win the best actress Oscar they should cancel the whole thing
It was of course inevitable — and perhaps it’s even darkly funny? — that there would be moves made to cancel the American writer-director Todd Field’s cancel-culture drama,, even though it’s not really, or not primarily a “cancel-culture drama”, rather a highly specific and creepily compelling portrait of a world-famous conductor’s fall from grace.has been accused of sexism — why make a #MeToo movie in which the predator is a woman? — and racism, in its depiction of southeast Asian characters.
Tár, it becomes clear, has used her position of influence to seduce younger women, who she has later discarded, on at least one occasion with tragic results. She is insensitive to the feelings and opinions of those less gifted and powerful than herself: lesser conductors, musicians, students, her staff. In one indelible — and hilarious— scene, she aims her considerable venom at a young child. She is obviously guilty of some of the behaviour she is suspected of.
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