I love this movie. I knew going in that it was going to be funny, satirical and have interesting observations about race. But I had no idea it was going to be such an emotional gut punch. Which of course was an added bonus. Nice discussion, btw

@waynedexter

6 ай бұрын

This movie did put the onus completely on white folks for why stereotypical black tropes in entertainment exists. But black folks are eating up some of these tropes too. Especially when it comes to music and movies. I wish the “American Fiction” would’ve touched on this, just a smidge

I didn’t know the info about the fiction Pulitzer. I laughed out loud at the library scene, the white woman claping at the book launch of the other author getting up just in front of him, and the scene in the room when 3 white people decide the book gets the prize, while the 2 black authors say no and then the woman leading the discussion says We need to listen to black voices.😅😂 Great movie and social analysis.

Absolutely brilliant film! Loved it!

Ohhmyyyygaaawdddd that’s Matthew Film Guy! This started autoplaying and I done did heard his voice! Starstruck. I also started watching the film w/out having glanced at the director’s name (v rare for me), and incidentals about the school and dept were uncannily familiar, so I looked up who did it and he graduated from my alma mater just a cpl years before I did.

Watching this again with my family on my birthday. It’s funny and charming that I think my parents will get a kick from that and just thought provoking enough that they might have a takeaway from then. My brother will read more into how black stories should be told

Absolutely loved this movie and especially the “meta” ending. Thought it worked excellently. Easily the funniest movie of the year while also asking a lot of deeper questions.

@wgibso20

4 ай бұрын

“But well meaning Liberals” just be honest, the film is calling out a lot of hypocrisy and bad faith in Libralism and it’s desire to co opt black stories for clout. It’s an epicdemic and it hurts black culture boy only celebrating it. The film was hard hitting and hearing you (two men of white race) attempt to mitigate that message feels a lot like a scene straight of the movie.

👍🏾😃🙏🏾

Also the fact that you call his real life "Tonally Jarring" is the specific point of the films narrative. It' supposed to be painfful and mundane and boring, when he writes about his real pain no one wants to hear it. But when the film delivers on made up Meta Satire you eat it up. Do you see the irony in not enjoying that part? You missed what the film was trying to say to you.

@moviehusbands

4 ай бұрын

The irony of two counteractive parts of the film is not what I take issue with. The elegance with which a creator transitions from one mode to another, specifically with an ironic & thematically resonant lesson at stake, is what I take issue with.

@moviehusbands

4 ай бұрын

Can you provide evidence that his literature is autobiographical? I’ve seen the film twice and never got that impression. He is a real writer - meaning he’s intellectual and wrestled with complex ideas, but never took him for the novel masquerading memoir crowd.

@_abracadabra

Ай бұрын

I think "painful and mundane and boring" was in reference to Monk's actual life: eldest daughter burdened with taking care of ailing mom, gay brother going through mid-life crisis, Monk meets cute neighbor....that's about as mundane as you can get. If you pitched a Black family drama with those plot points to any major studio, they'd reject it outright because it isn't "raw" and "real" (the two words the publisher kept using to describe Monk's troll-book).

Jeff, (or is it geoff) why do you think you are pretentious?

@moviehusbands

6 ай бұрын

I guess because I prioritize arthouse and foreign films and perhaps underrate blockbuster films

@douchemonkey44

6 ай бұрын

@@moviehusbands that's only a matter of taste! I find you both delightful and fun