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After the director picked up his Oscar for Jojo Rabbit, he launched into the most powerful speech I’ve ever heard
Apologies for bringing up the Oscars again, but I need to talk about a speech that touched the core of my very being. Not Joaquin Phoenix’s, with its suggestion that drinking milk is analogous to racism. Nor Renée Zellweger’s free associative one, in which she thanked people who had meant a lot to her, but sounded as if she was doing a sequel to Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start The Fire: Neil Armstrong! Sally Ride! Fred Rogers! Harriet Tubman! It was always burning as the world was turning!
The speech I’m referring to was not, strictly speaking, an acceptance speech. But it was a speech, given by a winner, at the Oscars, so it totally counts. It was Taika Waititi’s rant against Apple keyboards. Continue reading...