Peter Bart: Upcoming Spielberg, Mendes & Gray Movies Could Teach Newly Troubled Tech Titans Some Old Tricks
deadline.comThree rite-of-passage movies are vying for attention this week at a moment when the rewards of maturity seem to be offering more gratification than the agonies of youth.
Steven Spielberg, Sam Mendes and James Gray have delivered candid and poignant coming-of-age dramas dealing with broken marriages, mental health traumas and unwitting encounters with racial inequities, respectively.
Each is a survival story: A key element of the healing process was the influence of movies – a welcome message at a time when movies are enduring a rite of passage of their own.
The films’ timing carries a certain cultural irony: With losses and layoffs wreaking headlines in the tech economy, this has been a perilous week for those coping with younger superstars named Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos and Bankman-Fried.
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