This was the best acted film I've seen in quite awhile. Denzel Washington and Viola Davis put forth performances that are rewards season gold. Washington also does a good turn at directing. I haven't read the play or script of the movie, but I did read an August Wilson play as part of a course on Playwriting in grad school. It seems one of the most unique qualities of Wilson's plays are his language use. The dialect comes across as unique to the American South and African-Americans. I think I liked that par the best. Once I got a hang of the dialect the movie was much more enjoyable. The opening sequence really pulled me in. Perhaps it lags in the middle, but I thought it was a very good movie. It really speaks to how American black people were mistreated under segregation for so long. The lament that Washington's character has about not making it in baseball is funny and sad at the same time. That opening monologue is entertaining and emotionally moving.
Perhaps it will get a bunch of noms and put the Oscars So White controversy on the ash heap of Oscars history? I hope so.
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