“Primetime” and Emptiness
This is not McDonald’s. This is something different.

Three lonely strangers meet at a subway exit on an early summer morning. They get a chance to fill the gaps in their lives, but some may miss out on this opportunity for fear of becoming even more lost in loneliness.
This is not McDonald’s. This is something different.
I suppose you could argue that the story wasn’t what Director James Cameron was aiming for, it was the visuals. The spectacle of it all was the point, and it certainly shows.
Like all modern societal phenomenons, it started with a meme. This one highlighted that when there’s a mom in a Pixar film, she is almost without fail given striking curves that highlight the bottom half of her body following a minuscule waist. From Elastigirl to the skeletal Mama Imelda, the animation giant’s artists seem to have a fixation on making exaggeratedly curvy maternal characters.
Cassie, a musician, and Luke, a man serving in the Marines, form a false relationship and keep it a secret.
A Christmas tale that everyone is wishing for, and that everyone will remember.
A film for the post-MeToo era that inverts the narrative with an ironic coda, Tár depicts the duality of a sensitive artist capable of great evil and vile manipulation.