The Blue Pill.

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I suppose that if you shovel shit for long enough, you become to believe everyone wears wellington boots and owns a shovel.
With mainstream media dying, it would be nice to believe that those who read auto-cues and write click-bait articles for a living,
know in their hearts that their trade has failed and now they're just bucketing the water out of the sinking boat of true journalism.

But it seems that their need to maintain their station of class is so crucial to their original task of informing the public of relevant
information, the actual information has been transformed to cater for the MSM's place in the social order.

Is it newsworthy to report a homeless person overdosed on spice in a country lane and died?
Would it warrant a one-minute piece on a televised news-outlet of Brenda's enjoyment of mowing the overgrown garden of a
disabled neighbour?

Or does the dwindling audiences of the mainstream media prefer to know and understand the trials and tribulations of those
who obtain -a difference from seeking, a healthy and affluent lifestyle in the industry of story-telling and illusion?
A pattern in the form of for-or-against would surely offer the answer.

The world of journalism has jumped the shark, wandered into the false realms of entertainment and now it seems, they can't
find their way out. If a brain surgeon cannot tell you the name of the main foe in Avergers Endgame and the lawn-cutting Brenda
can, which one is more relevant than the other?
In the kingdom of journalism, it seems it all comes down to the same old function of pushing a preferred narrative in an known
environment, that of entertainment.

Cannes Film Festival fires opening warning to ‘ignorant’ world leaders.

'The Cannes Film Festival has got off to a hard-hitting start with its jury president accusing world leaders of ruling with "rage
and anger and lies". Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu said prevailing rhetoric around immigration -including the
notion of a US-Mexico border wall -could lead to another world war...'

Movies are lies, directing actors to perform for the public is pretence. The characters in the movies aren't real -even if the film
is about someone who really existed. It's all just fantasy for a public to pay and hopefully enjoy.
Mr. Iñárritu's opinion is as valid as anyone else, but it seems it only gets an airing in the media due to his job in entertainment.
Brenda's view gets left in the grass-clippings.

'..."The problem is what is happening is ignorance," he added. He spoke ahead of the opening premiere of Jim Jarmusch's
The Dead Don't Die.

"I'm absolutely against what is happening all around and expect there will be something that will stop this dangerous thing that
can return to us to 1939. We know how this story ends if we keep with that rhetoric," said the Birdman, Babel and Revenant
director.

Referring to climate change he said: "The world is melting and these guys are basically ruling with rage and anger and lies and
they are basically writing fiction and making people believe those are real thing and facts."...'

How did Mr. Iñárritu and his fellow-movie folk get to Cannes...? It's not the usual 'Gotcha' moment I 'm aiming for with that query,
it's the self-moral qualities that intrigues me. If the world is melting -as Mr. Iñárritu and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suggests, how
does one hold such a virtuous anger whilst sitting in a First-Class suite six miles above the alleged liquefying planet?
Please tell me there's at least, a small pang of hypocrisy in the quiet room on the 747?

Could this be an obvious balm to counter the articles about Dame Emma Thompson flying over to to London in order to cajole the
recent protests of a group known as 'Extinction Rebellion'? 

'...Earth off its axis
A few hours later, the festival's opening film -Jarmusch's dark zombie comedy -provided a slightly more satirical swipe on the
leading world authorities, regarding current climate change and immigration policies.

The film, starring Bill Murray, Adam Driver and Tilda Swinton, concerns a zombie apocalypse brought about by "polar fracking"
that sends the Earth off its axis. "Maybe it'll all just go away like a bad dream," declares Murray.
"I doubt it," replies Driver, "This is all gonna end badly"...'

Ignoring the BBC's duplicity here where they quote lines from a fictional screenplay made by adults pretending to be someone
else, may I submit that such a script doesn't sound very thought-provoking. Zombies don't exist and Polar-fracking isn't a thing,
unless you include anywhere there's snow is labelled 'polar' -that is.

Bill Murray plays Cliff Robertson, Adam Driver pretends to be Ronnie Peterson and Tilda Swinton acts out the character Zelda
Winston. All fictional, made-up, imagined ideas that cannot interact with the real world.
Oh... before I forget, Brenda is fake too. Just in case the art-critics at the Beeb are confused.

'...The topical movie comes just weeks after the Extinction Rebellion protests brought parts of London to a standstill...'

Relevant to this affluent gathering of movie-performers?
Or was it because a load of middle-class white people descended on London and after a theatrical display of virtue signalling
-behavior that filled many a newspaper column and television news minutes -may I add, the whole farce caused nothing but dismay
for car and truck drivers and loss of income to local businesses.

Using the BBC's highly-suspect manner of delivering information, the same movie came just weeks after the Sri Lanka bombings
and the fictional Brenda's tending to the weed-filled border of the neighbour's garden. 
Germane to the Director's comments...? or just the same level of poor word-smithing?

'...The 55-year-old, who was joined on the jury press conference panel by judges including Babel actor Elle Fanning and Oscar
-nominated director Yorgos Lanthimos, added: "I'm not a politician but as an artist I can express through my job with a heart open
what I think and be truthful to what I leave through the work that I did."...'

The preening of self-worth never stops does it. It wouldn't surprise me if Mr. Lanthimos demanded a soundtrack to be made for use
during his directing. It's great that some people can live in a fantasy world and that the mundane and terrible lives that go on in the
real world are far-removed from the lifestyles in Hollywood and Cannes, it really is.
But... just don't. The average reader and viewer who have the luxury to enjoy entertaining books and cinema really don't need your
phony dismay.

'...The Dead Don't Die, which also features Selena Gomez, Chloe Sevigny and a brilliant cameo by the undead coffee-addicted Iggy
Pop, earlier saw Steve Buscemi lampoon US President Donald Trump's signature Make America Great Again cap.
His character donned a similar one bearing the slogan Keep America Racist Again...'

This is the movie with only two black actors in prominent roles... and they're men too!
Anyone can virtue-signal. (sigh)

'...There were fits of laughter across the press screening throughout, though, and none more so than when Murray appeared to
briefly nod off during a meandering pre-screening speech by French comedian Edouard Baer.
The opening ceremony was simultaneously beamed into 600 cinemas across France.
Stars of The Dead Don't Die headed off into the lively Cannes night, but are set to appear before the press again to answer questions
on Wednesday morning...'

Oh, I'd have thought they'd have headed off to tell the dolphins that everything was going to be okay and then pose for cameras.
Such a noble breed.

'Art not fame'
The film festival is expected to get even more political as the week goes on, thanks to new works by socially-conscious Cannes
veterans Ken Loach and Terrence Malick, as well as the first ever competition-listed film by a black woman - in the form of Mati Diop's
Atlantics. Iñárritu and the eight-strong panel will watch and then discuss the merits of all 21 films in competition over the next fortnight.

The winner will be awarded the esteemed Palme d'Or prize at the festival finale and the boss declared on Tuesday that the panel
would make a decision based on "the art" and not "the name or fame" of each director's offering...'

BBC:

And Brenda will hold her breath in anticipation. The wandering troubadours of old have grown into aloof detached agents of ethicality,
bastions of elevated principles that need to be heard by the unwashed.
Sounds like a comedy-sketch... doesn't it?