The real-life development of a best-seller book that dared to say that race is not the primary issue is a great commitment for a movie. And I cannot express but thankfulness for this one to have been made.
The protagonist's journey is interesting, because her business is with words, yet she just has that gut feeling that is completely frustrating when it comes to express it in words. That's why the movie takes so long to gain momentum, and that's tremendously right and highly courageous. Finally she finds a path that leads to an opus that is, in the eyes of North America, highly revealing. It was published amid the 'Black Lives Matter' turmoil and, to a certain sense luckily so, not only for the formidable sales, but for helping people understand that 'Black' is marginally the issue: 'Outcast' is the central issue.
Some of the scenes are overwhelming, I choose to mention the sofa scene and the pool scene. Magnificent.
But I wish that the director/writer would have covered, for the good of the American audiences, the 'Native American' part of the issue. Even if Wilkerson didn't, the movie had the chance of doing it, and the fact that it did not is very telling. It could have been much greater than it ended up being. What a pity.
The protagonist's journey is interesting, because her business is with words, yet she just has that gut feeling that is completely frustrating when it comes to express it in words. That's why the movie takes so long to gain momentum, and that's tremendously right and highly courageous. Finally she finds a path that leads to an opus that is, in the eyes of North America, highly revealing. It was published amid the 'Black Lives Matter' turmoil and, to a certain sense luckily so, not only for the formidable sales, but for helping people understand that 'Black' is marginally the issue: 'Outcast' is the central issue.
Some of the scenes are overwhelming, I choose to mention the sofa scene and the pool scene. Magnificent.
But I wish that the director/writer would have covered, for the good of the American audiences, the 'Native American' part of the issue. Even if Wilkerson didn't, the movie had the chance of doing it, and the fact that it did not is very telling. It could have been much greater than it ended up being. What a pity.
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