Moviedom

For me, movies are becoming increasingly unwatchable. Take for instance, my latest attempt that involved "Knock at the Cabin" with screenplay by M. Night Shyamalan and starring Dave Bautista among others. It involved a family consisting of two fathers and an eight year old girl of Chinese ethnicity. This frontal assault on the family by the movie industry is nowadays relentless and gathering momentum. The intent is to redefine the family so that children being raised by two fathers or two mothers is just as acceptable as being raised by the traditional father and mother. 

At the point where the happy parents were picking their baby up from the hospital, I turned the movie off. There's obviously a quota now that movie studios have to adhere to and this involves showing a certain percentage of families in movies as comprising same sex couples. I don't know what the percentage is but it seems sizable. 

Episode 3 of "The Last of Us" featured an entire episode depicting the relationship between two gay guys from start to finish over the course of many years. It bore no relationship to the plot of the story that effectively was put on hold at the end of episode 2 and restarted with episode 4. It was as if the producers used that entire episode to fulfill their quota so that they get on with the story.

While one wonders who really wants to see two bearded men kissing, the real issue is that this plot element was clearly injected into the story line to fulfill a quota. The quota is not only about the makeup of families and the sexual orientation of individuals, it involves the depiction of minorities. In the case of North America, this means a certain percentage of actors need to be black, Asian, Hispanic etc. The recent backlash against the BAFTA winners being almost exclusively white shows that the pressure is on to make awards conform to this quota system as well.

Film makers are under pressure to meet these standards or face the financial consequences. It's similar to the pressure being applied to businesses to adhere to ESG standards. It's all to do with a very small minority of people with inordinate influence deciding what is best for the vast majority of humanity. The sad fact is that this majority is easily lead. I remember watching Sunday Bloody Sunday in the cinema fifty years and the audience groaning in unison at the sight of Peter Finch kissing his male lover.

Most people have little idea of the battle that was fought between Hollywood and the Catholic Church regarding sexual content in movies. It's no secret that Jews run Hollywood, although it's really only acceptable to say so this if you're a Jew. It's also no secret that the Jews pioneered the porn industry. From the early days of Hollywood, the movie moguls were keen to add prurient content to their movies but the Catholic bishops, especially in cities like Boston, threatened a boycott and the moguls caved in. More details of this struggle can be read in "The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit" by E. Michael Jones.

This restraint that had been forced upon Hollywood fell apart in the mid-sixties as Catholicism imploded. Excessive violence and disagreeable sexual content increasingly found its way into movies in the late sixties and early seventies. The rot has continued ever since but it's clearly now rotten to the core. You could watch nearly every movie before the mid-sixties with your family and not have them exposed to anything uncomfortable or extreme. That changed as the sixties unfolded.

The main point of this post is that good movies are not made by being forced to adhere to quotas regarding sexual orientation, ethnicity or whatever is deemed necessary by the movie mafia. Film makers should feel free to work with an all white cast of heterosexuals if it suits their purposes and awards should be decided on their merits and not whether they successfully fulfill woke quotas.