Could this fairly meaningless rant be John Pilger's attempt to nominate himself and his latest movie, Utopia, for Oscar Celebrity of the Year?
I refer any interested readers to the following from Alice Springs where Utopia recently played to a packed and picked house.
http://www.alicespringsnews.com.au/2014/01/27/pilgers-polemic-wide-of-the-mark-on-australia-and-aborigines/

Gosh John, thanks for this. I mean without leadership from you and the glittering Pilgerati, some of us might have gone to the cinema and actually enjoyed ourselves. At least now, we'll be able to temper our pleasure with reflections on our cultural inferiority and commercial naivety. What would we do without you?

The point of this essay is ?

Yes Senior Victorian

The Pilge is truly the posterBoy of the Pilgeratti chateratti.

Tis time for this long term British citizen to realise that he is universally repugnant. Live with it John.

You are a child of British dreary city, black-armbandism, who never grew in his views.

For Pilger to enjoy a film it would need to be black & white, subtitled from North Korean, downing "Great Satan USA", as boring as English treacle beer and elderberries.

Watch this eternally Pilge http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V7zbWNznbs .

Poyda

I think pillager has finally lost it. I guess that his "involvement" with indigenous peoples has given him a pox that destroyed his brain.

It will be interesting to see who gets an
oscar this year and for what. I have to confess
I am a movie buff but the movies that Mr pilger
speaks of I haven't seen. And Mr Robert De Niro
is not one of my favourites. As my grandson would say -
"Too scary."

I prefer actors like Colin Firth,(The Railway Man),
Judy Dench, (Philomena), Geoffrey Rush (The Book Thief),
to name just a few. And directors like Peter Jackson,
(The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug). Then of course
there's Emma Thompson (Saving Mr Banks) to put a light in
anyone's eyes.

I guess movies, like art, are subjective.