The film industry is already suffering because people are tired of preachy, woke messaging. The people behind this study want more of it., a professor at Colby College wants movies to beat you over the head even more with the “message” — in this case climate change.
“We are living through a crisis that touches every aspect of our lives, and therefore has a place in every contemporary story,” the study’s executive summary reads. “Today, films set in the present or near future that do not include climate change can be considered what they are: fantasy.” Some results were surprising. Movies that at first glance appear to have little overlap with climate or the environment passed the test. “Marriage Story,” Noah Baumbach’s emotive 2019 drama about the collapse of a relationship, passed the test in part because Adam Driver’s character is described as “energy conscious,” Schneider-Mayerson said.
The 2022 whodunnit “Glass Onion” and the 2019 folk horror movie “Midsommar” were others to pass the test. Some that were more explicitly about climate change, such as the 2021 satire “Don’t Look Up,” also passed. But “San Andreas,” a 2015 movie about a West Coast earthquake disaster, and “The Meg,” a 2018 action movie set in the ocean, did not.Maybe, just MAYBE, the audiences don’t want to be beat to death with yet still another further different social justice hammer.
We already have inter-racial couples, Magic Negroes who solve all of the cases, all-wise women who provide the solution to , and music sound tracks that sound like something out of the jungle.