September 18, 2025

SASHA STONE: Robert Redford Takes the Best of Hollywood With Him.

The ending of Quiz Show is memorable too, but not in the same way as Ordinary People or A River Runs Through It. It is not cathartic but ominous. It marked the era where everything began to change, where the Left planted the seeds that would ultimately lead to the Obama presidency and the utopia we built in his image.

The conclusion here about quiz shows is applied to politics, too. That was all of us waking up in the 1990s amid the therapy era, which Ordinary People helped launch. This depicts the cynicism of this age, or what they call in the Fourth Turning, the “unraveling.” It is cynical and hopeless, which helps explain why the Obama era became almost a religion, or at the very least, took the place of religion.

What I always loved about these three movies was how Redford worked out his own duality of being two people. He was the movie star, the golden boy, but he was also someone who saw himself fading into the background, the watcher, the introvert.

Read the whole thing. Exit quote: “Hollywood no longer makes movies like these. The best of what they ever did will die with Robert Redford. What they make now are endless apologies and virtue signals at best, and agonizing lectures at worst.”

UPDATE:

Posted at 4:45 pm by Ed Driscoll