Why Films Like ‘Ready Player One’ Outpace Hatred For Nostalgia

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Nostalgia has also been described as an antidote for loneliness: and what is more isolating than our lives lived onscreen, in a non-real reality, where we pay more attention to our phones than we do even to oncoming traffic? That the cure for the self-imposed isolation of the digital age is a fake world of digitized selves is too precious to be believed. Yet here we are.

But how long before nostalgia itself is assaulted by social justice warriors, proscribed, anathematized as the stuff of white supremacist dreams? How long before movies that are as awash in the past as “Ready Player One,” with its straight white male heroes, are crippled by woke folk who see this as some atavistic plot to relive a time before “diversity” was all that mattered? How long before the music of Hall and Oates, whose “You Make My Dreams Come True” plays over the film’s closing credits, is denounced as a racist, sexist dog whistle?
Nostalgia Is Hopelessly Problematic

Take for example the films of John Hughes—specifically “The Breakfast Club” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”—which are essential referents in the quest to advance in “Anorak’s Quest.” Recently, Hughes star Molly Ringwald took to the pages of the New Yorker to discuss how troubling and unenlightened those films were.


Why Films Like ‘Ready Player One’ Outpace Hatred For Nostalgia
How can the past be home to anyone, when there was so much injustice and misogyny and racism, when aggressions were macro and hate speech was the lingua franca of even the hated?



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