VL--IV. Movies as a betrayal

[Mark Kohut]

Laura writes:
Sasha's sense of "history is like your average movie script" is that the real story gets edged out in favor of the crowd-pleasing cheap melodrama or simplistic good-guy stories.

Bekah says:
I think he's saying that movies didn't  fix the reality of those who were working in the industry;  the movies didn't even "ennoble"  their lives and struggles by making movies about the struggles!

I will still argue that TRP means that movies, the fabricated "dream factories" that pervade the real world, which are the 'real world' of Vineland America, start with a falseness--a betrayal--of reality...........from the betrayals of the workers to the betrayals by melodrama and either-or, good guy--bad guy stories.

Frenesi's riff on life "based on" a binary distinction, good guy, bad guy....her embrace of the world of betraying.....and the fact that Hollywood was divorced from its own 'producers"-----what an ingenious Marxist-like metaphor from OBA!......workers alienated from the products of their work and a LITERAL 'false consciousness" created!