Tag: Jeffrey WRIGHT
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American Fiction: Getting to the Inauthentic-Authentic Black Story
Movie info via Rotten Tomatoes: AMERICAN FICTION is Cord Jefferson’s hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture’s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses…
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“Hold the Dark”: Pursuing the Motiveless Malignancy
Hold the Dark is a difficult film to understand and watch because it attempts to explain what the rational mind can only see and understand as evil and motiveless.