Bruce LeRoy
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The director could have cast herself in the movie, she is part black.
‘Passing’ | Netflix | Tessa Thompson & Ruth Negga
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Guys you have to remember that this was a different time. For that era, they definitely could pass for white. The world was very black and white back then, there was no diversity. People had no experience with other races. That's how even darker skinned mullatos were able to claim that they were native american; most people didn't know what a native american looked like.
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
speaking of tessa, are yall still in the phase of acting like she's attractive? i mean she aint ugly, but i'd call her funny-looking before beautiful, cute, pretty or any other related word
watching this tonight 
steadyrighteous
Veteran
Professor K.
rap game Paul Millsap
Her head is disproportionately big
not to be on some "elbows too pointy" shyt, but it's gets distracting when I look at her too long
Seen this during Sundance in January. My thoughts are below:
Honestly what in the hell was the point of this film?! There’s no real story, just a collection of shots and moments strung along by a razor thin plot structure. I’ll say, beginning sets the film up nicely, and then the film fumbles the ball. How does a film called, “passing” barely even touch on said topic?
Oh I know why, this story was written and directed by a white woman (she is asked in an interview for The Guardian if she identifies herself as black, and her response is, and I quote, “She bursts out laughing....Heeeheee. It is quite funny. No, you could not get more white and middle class and English than me.").
Who thought that a white woman could successfully tell a story about a biracial woman struggling with her own identity? I guarantee this will be mentioned once this film goes mainstream.
Finally, the dialogue and ending might be the worst part of all this. The shock ending for the sake of one, especially in a movie like this is honestly stupid and misplaced.
Im usually not this critical about stuff like this, but the tone deafness of it all is so laughable to me.
A big swing and miss.
Honestly what in the hell was the point of this film?! There’s no real story, just a collection of shots and moments strung along by a razor thin plot structure. I’ll say, beginning sets the film up nicely, and then the film fumbles the ball. How does a film called, “passing” barely even touch on said topic?
Oh I know why, this story was written and directed by a white woman (she is asked in an interview for The Guardian if she identifies herself as black, and her response is, and I quote, “She bursts out laughing....Heeeheee. It is quite funny. No, you could not get more white and middle class and English than me.").
Who thought that a white woman could successfully tell a story about a biracial woman struggling with her own identity? I guarantee this will be mentioned once this film goes mainstream.
Finally, the dialogue and ending might be the worst part of all this. The shock ending for the sake of one, especially in a movie like this is honestly stupid and misplaced.
Im usually not this critical about stuff like this, but the tone deafness of it all is so laughable to me.
A big swing and miss.
Looks like I'm pa....not even gonna do it
Sounds like this one actually validates the train of thought those "ADOS or die" types have when it comes to casting and directing films so I can already tell its a clunker.
Why do people on the internet love to act as if the only thing that moves ca.n be about are plot?
Cinema at its finest
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Global Domination
trash