Cate Blanchett plays a renowned orchestra conductor and composer whose unchecked ego leads to her ultimate downfall. But the movie isn’t entirely unsympathetic to its monstrous heroine. In one scene, she holds a master class where her ideas about music collide with her students’ woke identity politics, and the results are ugly.
As his Sex Pistols bandmates gear up for their first U.S. tour in more than two decades, John Lydon vows to “never” return to the “woke” group. Lydon told The Independent that he would never rejoin Sex Pistols “not after what I consider their dirty deeds.”