The Oscar for best picture goes to the best picture (or, at least, a certain collective idea of it). Yet there’s another way to read that most defining and crucial of Oscar categories. If you look back at the best picture winners from years past, they will often tell you a great deal about what was churning around in the culture — the themes and passions and rocky incarnations of what was once called the zeitgeist (a term that fell out of the zeitgeist, but we’ll use it anyway). How Netflix's '