"I can't say it feels great and I can't say that it makes me happy. It just makes me feel peculiar. It's just a movie, at the end of the day. It's just supposed to be an action movie about a guy trying to get his daughter back. And, what I see every day, it weighs heavy on my heart for the world."
Paul Thomas Anderson's zero wins in eleven Oscar nominations may reflect his stated position that he is a filmmaker, not a politician, yet Oscar campaigns inherently involve political engagement. At a screening of his film "One Battle After Another," Anderson expressed discomfort with the film's timeliness, describing it as simply an action movie about a father retrieving his daughter, though it contains sequences depicting Latino migrants being liberated from immigration enforcement by antagonists connected to wealthy conservative men. The film's release coincided with the shooting death of nurse Alex Pretti by U.S. Border Patrol, making the film's themes particularly resonant with current events.
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