Just like I did written last weekI was at the premiere of willthe latest film by Denys Arcand, on September 25th.
The Maisonneuve Theater on Place des Arts was full.
Journalists, artists, politicians, directors of major institutions, all the usual “who’s who” was there.
In his most beautiful robe.
Photo agency QMI, Marcel Tremblay
TAKE HIS HOLE
Denys Arcand makes fun of political correctness and wokism for two hours.
And for two hours, the people in the room howled with laughter (because despite its title and subject, Testament is very funny).
As I watched the audience applaud wildly at the end of the film, I asked myself a question:
If all these people find the manifestations of Wokism ridiculous;
If you agree with Denys Arcand that our era is at the forefront;
If they recognized themselves in this biting satire of today’s Quebec, with its angry activists who see racism, patriarchy and colonialism everywhere, and its timid politicians who bow to the dissenting demands of the radical left;
Why are the artists and decision-makers who so enthusiastically praised the “genius” of the Decline director doing nothing to stop the worrying excesses of wokism in their circles?
- Listen to Richard Martineau’s editorial discussing current events with Alexandre Dubé QUB radio :
Why do our creators remain unmoved when they find wokism so dangerous when the cultural institutions and funding organizations that are supposed to “make our culture flourish” impose all sorts of absurd rules that dangerously restrict their freedom of expression?
Why are they silent?
Why are they taking her hole?
Why do they accept without batting an eyelid that we “rewrite” their scripts or censor their works?
Why do they end up in front of false interest groups that only advocate three haircuts, two haircuts and a pregnant woman?
I asked Joseph Facal the question on QUB Radio yesterday.
It didn’t take long for him to answer.
“Because they are cowards. They are cowards. »
The Song of the Locusts
When it’s time to applaud a vicious wokism satire, the artists are there!
But when it comes time to criticize decision-makers who, for example, unilaterally “degender” performance prices or impose quotas, conditions and absurd constraints that have nothing to do with creation, we suddenly hear so much howling that it feels like a Pagnol feels like film.
Hello ? You are artists! They should defend freedom of expression!
You should courageously face the armor of righteousness that wants to crush everything that transgresses, everything that shakes, everything that disrupts, everything that is unique, daring, against the grain!
But where are you, as Daniel Boucher sang?
Where are yours, as Paul Piché asked?
Last week, when I saw all these wonderful people cheering for Arcand’s film, I said to myself: But don’t you see that you are part of the problem that the artist you so warmly applaud is denouncing?
As Einstein said: “The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who stand by and do nothing.” »
