This might be a reductive way of looking at the Oscars. Well, for one thing, when it comes to the Oscars, there is some accounting for taste. Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time …” is a dream about the accidentally heroic pre-emption of racist Charles Manson’s murder plot. And “Little Women” quietly dramatizes the freedom white women experience after the men have left to fight a war; a war to end the enslavement of black people. “Joker” is about a comedian, but it doesn’t have Tarantino’s sense of humor about its whiteness.

Source: New York Times February 04, 2020 23:15 UTC