Cate Blanchett has yet again cast her spell of enchanting performance with her new film ‘Tár’. She got nominated for Golden Globe Awards 2023, and the actress won the award. Todd Field’s directorial return has been creating ripples since the Venice Film Festival. The film received a six-minute standing ovation. The ‘Blue Jasmine’ actress won the award for ‘Best Actress’ at the Film Festival, too.
Cate has been vocal about many issues that she feels strongly about. She is the Goodwill Ambassador of the UNHCR and has been tirelessly working for refugees. She is also a conservation activist. Recently, during the start of the awards season, she called the awards a ‘patriarchal pyramid’ and urged to stop the ‘televised horse race’. Now, the actress is calling out the nefarious cancel culture budding in the world.
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Cate Blanchett Believes That Cancel Culture Would Doom Society
There is a culture reset happening in the world with little to no tolerance for the slightest of mishaps from a celebrity. Cancel culture has become rampant for both good and bad. People have called out J. K. Rowling for her alleged transphobic remarks. Fashion giants like Balenciaga have been canceled for employing children to promote their BDSM-inspired bags. However, certain cancel culture acts have been proven fatal which has led to erasing of some culturally important events.
Cate Blanchett starrer ‘Tár’ also deals with the morality of the cancel culture especially post the #MeToo wave. The power politics that unfolds in the film and the narcissism that Lydia Tár presents brush with this controversial issue. However, Cate Blanchett has taken an anti-stance on the current cancel culture. She believes that every piece of art must be studied irrespective of the artists’ morality to preserve history and not repeat past mistakes.
In an interview with Radio Times, Cate said, “If you don’t read older books that are slightly offensive because of what they say in a historical context, then you will never grapple with the minds of the time [and] we are destined to repeat that stuff”.
She continued, “Look at Picasso. You can only imagine what went on in, outside, and around his studio. But do you look at Guernica and say that is one of the greatest works of art ever? Yes, it’s a fact. It’s important to have a healthy critique”.
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The Actress Was Attracted To The Uneasiness Of The Script
Lydia Tár looks like a menacing, but artistically satisfying character. It must not have been easy to imbibe the complexity that the character demands. She is an accomplished conductor with a family, but her present gets marred with the egotistical, narcissistic climb to perfectionism. During an interview with The Guardian, she confessed that she inhaled the script.
Blanchett said, “One of the dangerous and alarming things about the film is that it does not invite sympathy or offer easy solutions. No one is entirely good, and no one is entirely innocent. It’s a very nuanced examination of the corrupting nature of institutional power, but it’s also a very human film because at the centre you have someone in a state of existential crisis”.
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