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2020-12-01T01:29:44.116Z


FIGAROVOX / ANALYSIS - “An American Ode”, Ron Howard's latest film, traces the fate of the invisible people of peripheral America. A few years ago, who would have imagined that Hollywood, and even more Netflix, would be interested in the fate of the forgotten?


And while Donald Trump is about to leave the White House, “the deplorable” are coming to Netflix.

An American ode,

the last film by Ron Howard (director of

Apollo 13

and

An Exceptional Man

) available on the famous platform since November 24, will not be the film event of the year, nor even the biggest success of the Silicon Valley multinational.

However, the very existence of this feature film and its presence in this medium already constitute a small revolution and can be read as a symbol of the social and cultural reconquest of the forgotten.

What the geographer Christophe Guilluy calls the

“soft power of the popular classes”

.

"The people - who no longer existed -" the little people ", suddenly passed from the shadows to the light

, he writes in his new book,

The Time of the Common People

.

This emergence in overalls, yellow vest or blouse now exceeds social and political frameworks to reach the essential: the field

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Source: lefigaro

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