Not much to say on this one. I don’t actually know how we got Josh and Taylor to see this movie on a Wednesday night except that it seems like Taylor will see virtually anything with heated seats and Panda Express nearby. My reservations were that this film would engage in hero worship of the sort I imagine was in the movie Jane (for Jane Goodall, still alive?? And the Stephen Hawking biopic from a few years back in which Eddie Redmayne did his best to troll people who use wheelchairs by doing a good job off his feet for the first half of the film before getting up in a “fantasy sequence” in which his fantasy is to piss off a bunch of the audience).
Anyway, I recommend going back to Slate and looking at the think piece written about Ginsberg in light of her comments about Colin Kaepernick’s protest. The film has to push some people down or out of the frame in order to elevate RBG (Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan’s work in the past few years has to be eliminated in order to account for her ascent as the righteous Dissenter. I like her husband a lot more now that I’ve listened to some of his stand-up, and if you liked the coverage of her cases in the 70s, you’ll love RadioLab’s spinoff More Perfect (podcast that covers the supreme court, esp the episode on the 13th amendment). Her explanation for why she did not leave the court during Obama’s tenure is pretty unsatisfying, and I’m left wondering if she like the rest of us west coast liberals just thought Hillary was a shoe-in. Was pretty tired by the time they got to the friendship between her and that grumpy troll Scalia.
See it if you have two hours on your hands when you’d rather be smoking crack or getting into trouble, but otherwise hard pass. Apparently Moviepass has weeks left to live, so we’ll be milking it for all its worth this month.
