If the Oscars are meant to display the film industry's ideal image of itself, the choice of "Killers of the Flower Moon" and "Barbie" among the year's best movies is evidence that the spirit of artistic audacity has survived the age of superheroic domination.
The causes have to do with a long-term shift in the nature of movie viewing-largely, the dwindling of the suspension of disbelief. The vast amount of information about how movies are made, the proliferation of interviews about the process, and perhaps the sheer volume of moving images on view in daily life have made new generations of viewers fiction-skeptical.
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