I'm a big film fan and try to watch as many nominees as I can ahead of the ceremony, including the shorts. Unfortunately, the current predicted winner of Documentary Short, "ABCs of Book Banning," is making me sit through scenes like this:
(Earlier in the film is two fags whining that their book on gay penguin daddies was pulled from the library lmao)
Literally could not have the most cherrypicked cast of kids of hippie liberal parents and taught by hippie liberal parents, effusively insisting that, at 10 years old, they LOVE reading about black history, LGBTQ, trannies, and drag queens. One black kid keeps looking off camera like he's being coached. Now, I can only vaguely remember being 10, but I was more fixated on kid mystery and fantasy books than wanting to read about joggers getting hosed down by cops or fags sucking each other off, and all my classmates were the same. Yet this wants to convince me that there are millions of second-graders who are DESPONDENT at a book about trannies getting pulled from the shelves, and there is NO WAY they can learn about confidence or history without the concepts coming from the pen of a negress drag queen.
Disappointing especially because, when I was younger, I did seek out banned books -- but back in those days, banned books had more to do with kids being violent to each other or getting hooked on drugs or surviving abusive homes/school situations, not getting convinced they're trans because they're a girl who likes sports or a guy who's emotionally sensitive.