assignment 17—change&compromise—emanuelle sippy

Needless to say, it’s not January 5th or February 9th, but I like to think: better late than never. Over the break—practically eons ago—I actually watched so many movies because my grandparents weren’t really up to doing anything. The best were Bombshell and Two Popes. Bombshell made me think about my privilege in a way that I haven’t before. It was hard for me to speak up when friends were being harassed and assaulted physically and verbally (and I was being harassed verbally), I couldn’t get people to do anything about it, and I have supportive, liberal parents, The move just made me think wow, it has to be so much harder if your whole world is against you and doesn’t believe you. There is a moment in Two Popes that I think about a lot. Pope Benedict XVI says to Pope Francis “You compromised” and Pope Francis says back “No, I changed. Change and compromise are different.” I feel like often, in our world, we make compromises when actually we have to change. In some ways, I think that’s the essence of a revolution. In my mind, a revolution doesn’t have to mean destroying or overthrowing systems but it does have to mean change, which is radically different from compromise. In some ways what Bombshell uncovers is a compromise and that’s part of the problem. Fox fails and society fails to see the need for change and merely compromises.