Breathe
By Susana Moscatel
First confession: I have been obsessed with and working from the inside of award ceremonies, especially the Oscars, for more than two decades, enjoying them, criticizing them, laughing at them and getting mad at them for as long as I can remember. With that experience, including being the insufferable viewer who always thinks I can do better than he or she is doing, I can tell you something about the "controversy" over the lack of nominations for Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie at the Oscar has NOTHING to do with film.
Second confession: despite the fact that this is one of the best years in terms of great, great cinema when we see it reflected in the awards season, I have been and will continue to be the biggest cheerleader for Barbie the movie. Not because it's a social treatise that blew me away, but because it managed to combine that message with the absolute delight we took in those toys when we were very young. Yes, before the complications of "social constructs". Before we saw our scale as the enemy, our height as our limit and our emotions as what we had to repress to get ahead in the "patriarchy".
