We live in strange times. Hollywood is shut down, and the industry’s bizarre virtue signaling has been brought to bear upon shelter in place orders.
The media industrial complex has been shown, again, to not be a beacon of resistance to tyranny but a mainstream lap dog possessing no more credibility than any other modern institution.
But of course there is the burgeoning independent film scene right? That’s been going on for a while now. Surely they care about freedom? Yet even there we still find the same pointless decadence shrouding itself in artistic bravery.
Case in point is “The True History of the Kelly Gang,” an Australian film about one of the most important icons of Australian culture: the bushranger Ned Kelly. It’s a great example...