Current cinema historical past exhibits that films are a bellwether of public sentiment, and final 12 months’s crop of class-conscious Oscar nominees, like Greatest Image winner Parasite, spells doom for Trump’s re-election.
Final evening, President Trump instructed a raucous rally crowd that he was not a fan of Parasite. I feel Trump despises the South Korean movie as a result of he unconsciously understands that it’s a foreboding omen that foretells his electoral defeat come November.
My principle is that cinema is a crystal ball that predicts presidential elections. I do know, I do know… this sounds idiotically insane… however it’s true.
For instance, cinema precisely foreshadowed Trump’s 2016 win, as within the previous 12 months, Highlight and The Huge Brief, two tales about outsiders taking up a corrupt institution – the Catholic Church and Wall Road – received Oscars.
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Three different nominees, The Revenant, The Martian and Mad Max: Fury Street, had been about males overcoming lengthy odds and surviving within the starkest of conditions.
Trump then ran as an outsider taking up Washington, and survived bleak odds and the grueling gauntlet of the media to win.
The field workplace additionally presaged Trump’s election as 2015’s massive earner, The Pressure Awakens, ought to’ve been titled ‘The Populist Pressure Awakens’, with Mission Unattainable: Rogue Nation and Minions additionally being titles that completely summed up Trump, his followers and their unbelievable victory.
Apart from the deliciously Trumpish title of 2016’s Rogue One, it was the superhero films of that 12 months which most precisely predicted Trump’s success, as Captain America: Civil Struggle and Batman v Superman instructed tales of internecine warfare with blue versus pink because the opposing colours.
Suicide Squad was one other massive field workplace earner and astutely summed up the anti-Trump institution Republicans.
However the largest clue to Trump’s impending victory was the success of Deadpool. Is there any extra Trumpish a superhero than the irreverent, anti-establishment Deadpool?
Different presidential elections show this loopy ‘cinema as crystal ball’ principle as nicely.
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In 2012, Argo, Zero Darkish Thirty and Lincoln, movies about authorities at its best, had been nominated and monopolized consideration all year long resulting in Obama’s re-election.
In 2007, No Nation for Previous Males received Greatest Image and will have been a bumper sticker for Obama’s marketing campaign towards outdated man John McCain.
Main as much as November of 2008, the field workplace was dominated by Hancock, a narrative of a black superhero, and The Darkish Knight, each metaphors for Obama as the person to avoid wasting America from the disastrous Bush reign.
In 2003, The Return of the King, a title that’s an incumbent’s moist dream, received each the field workplace and Greatest Image, and a plethora of sequels, Spider Man 2, Shrek 2, Meet the Mother and father 2 and Ocean’s 12, all foresaw Bush’s re-election.
As for 2019, of the 9 movies nominated, six of them take care of points of sophistication. Parasite, Joker, As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood, Ford v Ferrari, The Irishman and Little Girls all inform various tales of sophistication warfare and wrestle.
On the field workplace, Endgame – which signifies a definitive ending – and Rise of Skywalker, indicating one thing rising, dominated, as did the populist Joker.
Cinema is clearly telling us that the factor ending is Trump’s presidency, and the factor rising is Bernie Sander’s class-fueled populist revolution.
You need extra proof? Aladdin, the story of a blue genie who grants needs, was an enormous field workplace winner final 12 months, and if that doesn’t show Bernie goes to win, then nothing does.
Regardless that the media maintain saying the identical factor about Bernie that they as soon as mentioned about Trump, that he might by no means win the nomination, by no means thoughts the presidency… Bernie Sanders goes to be the subsequent president of the US.
