CODA (2021). It is not a biopic of a famous singer. It is the story of a normal high school girl who likes to sing. The stakes are not global fame; the stakes are whether she will leave her family's fishing business. It won Best Picture because 90% of the audience saw their own family's sacrifice in that story.

We all know the formula. The camera pans over a dilapidated garage. A struggling artist pawns their last guitar. Fast forward ten years: they are accepting a Grammy on a helicopter pad.

This is not the story of Steve Jobs or Elvis. This is the story of your high school history teacher who wrote a beautiful novel no one read. Your aunt who was the first woman in her family to buy a house. The neighbor who survived a war only to spend 40 years fixing mufflers in quiet dignity.