PonderingWill Smithsrecent triumphat a local Cinemark andDonald Trumps post-conviction surge, I got to thinking about movie-think.

The real villain is someone in power.

Anyonetoopretty, male or female, is suspect.

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures revises Hollywoodland exhibit following criticism

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures revises Hollywoodland exhibit following criticismUnderwood Archives/Getty Images

Things will get worse, much worse, before they get better.

In movie-think, we honor the renegades, the underdogs, those who are piled on by those above.

for what we feel to be right.

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Womanizer, tyrant and oppressive control are gone.

The documentary tells us that Hollywoods Jews were mostly secular, and kept Jewishness out of their pictures.

It is the essence of the Jewish experience, back to Exodus and beyond.

That narrative pose isnt unique to Jews.