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Zemeckis’ best picture winner is part of a long Hollywood tradition of looking at bigotry and segregation as all but solved or surmountable due to the grace and benevolence of individual white people.

Ordeals, such as they are, tend to be minor and surmountable; notions that everything is lost amount of misunderstandings.

The hill was surmountable, in my view, with a more compelling narrative and a bolder, more transformative set of ideas.

“If you believe you have the capacity to cope, you transform stress into a surmountable challenge,” says James Gross, a psychology professor at Stanford University who researches emotion regulation.

And then, if that playoff gap isn’t more surmountable midweek, deal more players by Friday.