Q&complAints #525 : Grudge

What are you holding a grudge about?

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. . .here are my thoughts.

What are you holding a grudge about?

Let’s talk Emancipation.  Not Lincoln’s 19th century Emancipation Proclamation; the 21st century film starring Will Smith.  A film that—if you’re anything like me—makes you rally against its main character.  I wanted to root for the emancipated man to truly be free, to reunite with the family he was sold away from, and to kill every White bastard at those plantations.  I really, really did.  But our main character was portrayed by Will Smith.  I guess I hold a grudge against Smith, because I found myself rooting for him to get far more than a smack across the face and a few foul words spewed his way. Justice for Rock!  If not in real life, then on-screen will have to suffice.  Perhaps this influenced the lackluster reviews of the film.  Or maybe so few people liked it because each act of the film felt like a stand-alone movie with a stand-alone plot: 

  1. Slavery
  1. Hide-and-go-seek 
  1. Civil War 

The film’s cohesion was further disrupted as it seemed partly shot in black-and-white, and partially using a “perpetual dusk” filter.  Either way, the director seemed to demand that light not be fully emancipated. 

 


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