Before
BOOM!!!!
After
A Face in the Crowd is such a powerful movie because it's so very human.
Last year, people said it predicted the rise of Donald Trump. That's correct. On the other hand, any number of students of sociology -- students of human nature and the fallenness of mankind -- saw Trump coming.
Now, we seem to be in a season of “There is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, nor secret that will not be known." No grope that will not be revealed, no powerful lecher that will not be known.
Or Mark Halperin.
Or Glenn Thrush.
Or Kevin Spacey.
Or John Besh.
Or Jeffrey Tambor.
Or Louis C.K.
Or Michael Oreskes.
The next, after the concealed has been revealed -- and how -- you're "(Fill in the blank) who?"*
C'est la vie . . . which no one ever thinks will happen to him. Especially when he's behaving badly with women.
* -- May not apply to Alabama evangelicals. They're deviant that way.
C'est la vie . . . which no one ever thinks will happen to him. Especially when he's behaving badly with women.
* -- May not apply to Alabama evangelicals. They're deviant that way.