This post contains spoilers for “Strange World.”It’s been said that “life imitates art,” but the expression also works the way around in terms of “writing what you know.” Taking inspiration from your own lived experience has been responsible for some of the most powerful stories of the ages like “Almost Famous” by Cameron Crowe, Steven Spielberg’s latest masterpiece “The Fabelmans,” or the upcoming Disney+ series “American Born Chinese,” which is based on the acclaimed graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang.
But I’m not sure that too many people out there want to relive the lockdown period of an ongoing pandemic through their entertainment just yet.
There have definitely been recent projects that have tackled the topic in unique and inventive ways like the “Mythic Quest: Quarantine” special or Bo Burnham’s “Inside,” but it’s probably better to put a general moratorium on movies about viruses or pandemics for a few years.
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