Jennifer Lawrence’s ‘One Battle After Another’ Rave, Explained

Jennifer Lawrence isn’t shy about her opinions. Sometimes they get her into trouble, or so she admitted recently.

The “Die My Love” star backpedaled on sharing her hard-Left political views, saying it doesn’t influence voters and only makes our divisive times worse.

Kudos for self-awareness, a rarity in celebrity circles.

It’s interesting to read between the lines of the Hollywood glitterati, especially someone as outspoken as Lawrence.

She just gave a Master Class on that subject.

It’s safe to say the Oscar winner enjoyed “One Battle After Another,” or as one screenwriting chum dubbed it, “One Antifa After Another.”  The Paul Thomas Anderson film is a love letter to violent radicals targeting the U.S. government.

Full stop.

It’s also being hailed by the critical community as this year’s Best Picture favorite. Put those arguments aside. Here’s what Lawrence said about “OBAA.” It’s “the best movie I’ve ever seen.”

She was just warming up.

“I can’t remember a time where I’ve had an experience like that in the cinema, and it was shared,” she said, adding that when the movie was over “everybody applauded.”!

Lawrence said she saw the movie with her husband Cooke Maroney and thanked him “over and over again because he had booked the tickets, like two weeks in advance.” After watching the thriller, she recalled, “I just couldn’t say anything else other than like, ‘Thank you for that experience.’ “

Snagging Taylor Swift or Beyonce tickets likely deserves some praise. They don’t come cheaply, and you have to move fast to secure them.

Ordering movie tickets is as easy as using the supermarket’s self service aisle.

Here, she directly praises the film’s director.

“Anderson has so many characters inside of him, and they’re all so visceral, so real, that it’s so alive and you’re in it. Every character, you know them, and you see them.”

The comments bring to mind those “First Reaction” raves that greet every Comic Con-style movie.

“I laughed! I cried! It’s better than ‘Cats!'”

But why would Lawrence go to such extremes on behalf of “OBAA?” We can assume, in good faith, that she enjoyed the film. That doesn’t explain her euphoria.

This likely does:

• She’s praising a movie her Hollywood community already adores. So she wants to be liked and join the chorus
• She knows the film’s hard-Left messaging is catnip in her community
• She understands that the best way to draw media attention is to use over-the-top language (Had she merely enjoyed the film and said as much – voila, no news cycle based on her review)
• She realizes the media is all-in on the film, and anything pro-“OBAA” gets attention
• Most importantly? She wants to star in Anderson’s next film, whatever it might be. Badly. This is her public attempt to get his attention. It just might work