![]() More on this below.įairness requires those things done well be saluted: the actress Mackenzie Foy was charming to look at and carried herself well, despite the lines she was given to say. Political Correctness necessarily drains away drama and audience appeal, unlike Stalinism, within whose strait jacket retains leeway enough to allow for a serviceable story. However, Political Correctness imposes self-censorship protocols on the ideology-controlled brain stricter than those which Stalin imposed on the state-controlled press. Moral of the story: true love sees inward worth. In that tale, a girl’s love breaks a spell on an ugly nutcracker wounded in her defense, restoring him to a handsome prince, whereupon the two are wed, and rule toyland happily forever after. ![]() Nonetheless, any writer of ordinary skill could work out some sort of fairytale plot with this material, or return to the original short story by Alexander Dumas or E.T.A. In the original ballet, the Nutcracker fights the Rat King first half of the first act, dies, and is reborn as a handsome prince, all in the first act and this is followed by one dance after another from various foreign lands or fairy courts representing the various Christmas treats: chocolate from Spain, coffee from Arabia, tea from China, candy canes from Russia, ginger bread matrons and sugar plum fairies. There is only so much one can do with this ballet. ![]() To be sure, I did not expect any adaptation of Nutcracker to have a two-fisted action tale, full of thrills and chills and sudden plot-twists. The Imp of Woke and Muse of story telling cannot tolerate each other. This film may not contain an example of every error into which “Wokeness” might lure a sleepwalker lobotomized by political correctness, but it contains the most frequent and atrocious. And it will serve as a perfect example to see why the spirit of “Wokeness” drives away the spirit of the Arts. Spoilers abound, but this is the type of movie that was spoiled before release, in the sense of being rotten, so read on. This column is not a so much a film review as much as a treatise on how to ruin a story. However, the film serves as a perfect example of how to ruin a story via political correctification. Over Christmas, by mischance, I happened to watch Disney’s NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS a visually splendid but thematically atrocious movie, with a plot by turns senseless, pointless, dull, predictable, puerile and mildly insulting which seems to be the hallmark of modern Disney. ![]()
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