Movie was absolutely fire.
I'm a huge fan personally, the acting was superb, the story flowed beautifully, it managed to avoid every corny pitfall and plotline inherent in films like these.
The unreliable figure of his mother was my favourite of all.
This is why feminism is good to a degree. Black women didn't have rights or freedoms. Even when many worked, it was mainly dead-end jobs like a maid for low pay and only few was self made like C.J. Walker
my great-grandma was the very same situation and I didn't even know this until yesterday. My grandmother's older brother was not my GGM's first child. I knew that, but I never knew until yesterday that he was raised in that house as more of a "Nan, you got a kid to raise" kind of way, not in a "Nan, let's decide together that we're going to raise this son of mine" kind of way. My GGM's first child wasn't even her own child. This story was literally my grandmother's life and I had no idea. All four of their kids (my grandmother and her three brothers) will tell you that they were married for 52 years, which was about 50 years too long. Gran just had no other options at all.
If you think about it, that's pretty close to being true right now. It's the reason why so many abused women can't and won't leave their attackers. Women like my mother had far more options when she left my biological father. She had a good government job, an extended family and just one child. Now, take a woman with, say, two kids, and a regular 9-5 with minimum benefits and a high school education, and you can see why it's more financially stable to stay. Not to mention that men can do some seriously fukked up shyt to disrupt a woman's financial means even if she DOES leave. shyt, my mother had my father trying to fukk her life up financially and they were divorced!
Oooh, I was up in my feelings like Rose was MY mama. Like that review said (I'll have to find it), we could sympathize and ride w/him until Rose couldn't ride with him anymore. I know our theater kind of turned on him then. (Like I said, my theater was LIT. Yelling at the screen like Madea was about to pop out.) I can't even say that Troy was a bad husband, but he was so damn selfish. Which was why Rose's speech just wrecked me. When she broke it all down like she did, I was in tears - and I don't have a husband OR kids!
I so agree. I'm glad there are more options now. No one should put up with that.
I'm glad things have changed so much. I'd like to think we have evolved as a society since then imo.
Also,
This movie covered blackness and feminism really, really well, without one cutting the other out. You rarely see that. Only...birth of a nation had that kind power. Troy was so hypocritical too. Why call out your son when you have another baby.
Just got back from watching it. Great movie, acting was great from Denzel and Viola, great cinematography. Everything was done well, you can feel the pain in Viola voice went she went off on him after he tell about the baby.
I agree. You gotta take the crookeds with the straights, and he did that chit.
And on the real, as we saw, he didn't really have no parents to learn from (like a lot of niccas).
I think Rose got it at the end. He was trying to make Corey everything he wasn't and at the same time
trying to make Corey everything he was...which in my humble opinion is what every father tries to do for his son(s).
I'm interested, brehs: were y'all Team Troy or Team Corey during that showdown?
shyt, the white man next to me was all in his feelings like he grew up w/a black stepfather or something. (Our crowd was racially mixed. Same at Hidden Figures, surprisingly.)
I would never DREAM of buckin' up to my Pop, and I wouldn't even to this day -
especially in his home. And Corey crossed the line talmbat how that became Troys' house because
that's irrelevant. And once he grabbed that bat, he had to go.
On the real, Corey was disrespectful of Troy the whole movie imo.
After the movie, I always stay and watch the credits. The man from the white family next to me saw I was the only one still seated
when everyone was leaving - he came back to me, extended his hand and asked "hey - are you alright?" lmao
liked this very much, well acted throughout. I'd say Cory was the weakest out of the bunch and him and lyon didn't really have much chemistry for them to be brothers
I liked the significance of the bar scene between Troy and Bono, to me the scene reflected a reoccurring idea every one kept tryna tell Troy but he kept ignoring. Things change and people change
After the movie, I always stay and watch the credits. The man from the white family next to me saw I was the only one still seated
when everyone was leaving - he came back to me, extended his hand and asked "hey - are you alright?" lmao
liked this very much, well acted throughout. I'd say Gabe was the weakest out of the bunch and him and lyon didn't really have much chemistry for them to be brothers
I liked the significance of the bar scene between Troy and Bono, to me the scene reflected a reoccurring idea every one kept tryna tell Troy but he kept ignoring. Things change and people change
Even then, they weren't supposed to have chemistry like that; they were half-brothers
and Lyon was twice his age. They rarely saw each other except when Lyon came over once a week
and they had nothing in common.
And of course Cory was weaker, he was a teenage boy.
That was the impression I got was that everybody was kinda disconnected, despite their close
proximity to each other...it's like they had "fences" up (see what I did?).
Did anyone else have a few white people leave once Troy started
really fukking up? After he revealed his secret love child, 3 sets of white people walked out of my theatre what were they expecting? A Raisin in the Sun?
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only one thing I missed
what were they expecting? A Raisin in the Sun?