During the first half hour I was thinking this was in the 8-9 range for a score. Then the last act happened. Just like in the film the writer can't come up with an ending to his story.
While the acting is good, (I honestly don't understand why this is getting so much Oscar love. I've seen everyone in this give much better performances) I don't understand the screenplay as much. The story goes in 10 different directions and tries to say so much about the black experience while always calling out white people for always pretending to understand it or the white guilt. I wish the story would've just stuck to its narrative.
When Tracee Ellis Ross died early on I was very intrigued with where the film would go. After the point exactly is where I started losing some interest. While it focuses on so many subplots that I felt weren't interesting. The mother subplot, and then the insane idea of writing a book and lying about being a criminal while all the while hating black people for doing exactly what you're doing. To me this is a black guilt movie. It's a strange thing.
Lastly Sterling K. Brown is a phenomenal actor but I do not understand how in any world this performance warrants an Oscar nomination. He barely has anything to do and gives no real performance. It's really baffling. Jeffrey Wright on the other hand I can understand. Also a phenomenal actor and gives more detail to his character but yet still conflicted and not all that interesting. But I'm happy he gets recognized by the academy finally for his work.
Decent solid film just feel it's a bit overrated.
While the acting is good, (I honestly don't understand why this is getting so much Oscar love. I've seen everyone in this give much better performances) I don't understand the screenplay as much. The story goes in 10 different directions and tries to say so much about the black experience while always calling out white people for always pretending to understand it or the white guilt. I wish the story would've just stuck to its narrative.
When Tracee Ellis Ross died early on I was very intrigued with where the film would go. After the point exactly is where I started losing some interest. While it focuses on so many subplots that I felt weren't interesting. The mother subplot, and then the insane idea of writing a book and lying about being a criminal while all the while hating black people for doing exactly what you're doing. To me this is a black guilt movie. It's a strange thing.
Lastly Sterling K. Brown is a phenomenal actor but I do not understand how in any world this performance warrants an Oscar nomination. He barely has anything to do and gives no real performance. It's really baffling. Jeffrey Wright on the other hand I can understand. Also a phenomenal actor and gives more detail to his character but yet still conflicted and not all that interesting. But I'm happy he gets recognized by the academy finally for his work.
Decent solid film just feel it's a bit overrated.