Drive My Car and Worst Person In The World both end with scenes set in the mask-wearing present without the scripts needing to comment on it.― symsymsym, Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Saw both of those, and the not-commenting was interesting; COVID was just a part of life. in The Morning Show, it's an unfolding story (interrupted by other stories: Jan. 6, Roe, etc.).
― clemenza, Sunday, 25 February 2024 02:44 (three months ago) link
https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/stress-positions-no-movie-has-better-understood-how-mean-we-were-during-covid
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 19 April 2024 20:27 (one month ago) link
Ooh, I'm interested. I do wish there were more pop culture depictions of how the pandemic fucked everyone up for a while, especially since its effects are still reverberating.
― jaymc, Friday, 19 April 2024 23:45 (one month ago) link
Just finished All The Beauty and The Bloodshed. Noting that most of the chronicled protests were pre-Covid, in 2018-9, the pandemic quietly announces itself beginning in the fifth section when the Purdue/Sackler court dates are conducted as Zooms and a PAIN org meeting is seen being conducted outdoors with masking and social distancing. The final scenes at the Met also involve masking.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 5 May 2024 03:23 (four weeks ago) link