One hesitates to be too judgmental when a serially abused spouse finally starts to understand what is going on, to take steps to exit the relationship, and to proceed with what promises to be a happier and healthier mode of existence. But when that victim is Hollywood, which invited abuse by selling out every supposed value in its grotesquely unseemly scramble for Chinabucks, perhaps a wry smile is at least in order.
China is a place that murders babies by the million (both before and after birth) for the crime of being female, puts Uyghur Muslims in prison reeducation camps, ruthlessly represses speech and (perhaps most objectionably to Hollywood) frowns on references to homosexuality. Yet the movie industry was willing to overlook all of this, seemingly indefinitely, because every time it thought about pushing back, the phrase “world’s largest movie market” flashed through its head.
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