I have half black grandkids and I have to tell them not to use that word around me! It is usually associated with musical lyrics, when they use the word…but I tell them not around me?! It’s weird but I don’t think appropriate.
I can see that. It's almost always used at someone, like an attack. After watching _Origin_ it may be a way for people in lower caste to tell someone where they belong, or keep each other down, even if they don't believe they're doing that consciously. But I can also see the point that the character made in class; that that's the proper place to discuss difficult subject and language. Should we ban _Huckleberry Finn_ from class because of the N-word? Also, the character in this movie wants to rename his book "F***," as a joke. If you use it to attack someone that's different than to use it in different contexts, as bedroom language or as an expletive about a situation.
The part of _American Fiction_ that was in the trailer was excellent. The rest of the film we saw in theaters was about a family tragedy. If the latter is the film they wanted to make then they should have just made that one. The girlfriend says she liked the character/author's book he wrote under his real name because he supposedly wrote female characters well. But there was no sign of that in the movie. The character didn't want to hear what the women had to say (the student, his girlfriend and his rival author); he was superior and dismissive and had no growth from start to finish. It would be better to imagine a movie based on the trailer than to see what we got. Or see Spike Lee's _Bamboozled (2000)_ which had the same theme as the comedy part, despite people saying how "original" _American Fiction_ was. Also, it had the temerity to be released in my area the same day as _The Book of Clarence,_ a superior film that debuted at number 10 nationwide. It would have done better if _American Fiction_ had come out in February, I'm sure, since it grabbed and divided the same audience. It was rightly criticized for having a change in tone midway from comedy to redemption story. But _American Fiction_ isn't being criticized for its change in tone from comedy to tragedy. Likewise, no one went to another African-American movie, _Origin_ because these other two (plus _The Color Purple)_ were still in theaters and it didn't get much advertising/promotion. It was a journey of discovery that had more to say than _American Fiction._
American Fiction is a satire and shouldn't be compared to Origin or the Color Purple. You completely misunderstood that scene with the girlfriend when she compliments his work. Monk is depressed, so he's unable to take her in. He's a man apart. What we get out of a film or a work of art is what we put into it, and based on your comments, it appears that you don't know how to watch a film. You are very judgemental and rather closed minded. Which is unfortunate, because this film is a classic. It's so good, I watched it twice.
Big fan of all this gentleman's work🎭
I love Jeffrey Wright. He is an amazingly great actor....Low key ...but speaks Volumes in all of his roles.
I can’t begin to explain how validating and assuring this film has been for me and in my mind sits as a place of refuge for being understood.
My favorite American actor. Hope more people see his work.
Timely film and funny
Awesome movie!
I have half black grandkids and I have to tell them not to use that word around me! It is usually associated with musical lyrics, when they use the word…but I tell them not around me?! It’s weird but I don’t think appropriate.
I can see that. It's almost always used at someone, like an attack. After watching _Origin_ it may be a way for people in lower caste to tell someone where they belong, or keep each other down, even if they don't believe they're doing that consciously.
But I can also see the point that the character made in class; that that's the proper place to discuss difficult subject and language. Should we ban _Huckleberry Finn_ from class because of the N-word? Also, the character in this movie wants to rename his book "F***," as a joke. If you use it to attack someone that's different than to use it in different contexts, as bedroom language or as an expletive about a situation.
The part of _American Fiction_ that was in the trailer was excellent. The rest of the film we saw in theaters was about a family tragedy. If the latter is the film they wanted to make then they should have just made that one. The girlfriend says she liked the character/author's book he wrote under his real name because he supposedly wrote female characters well. But there was no sign of that in the movie. The character didn't want to hear what the women had to say (the student, his girlfriend and his rival author); he was superior and dismissive and had no growth from start to finish. It would be better to imagine a movie based on the trailer than to see what we got. Or see Spike Lee's _Bamboozled (2000)_ which had the same theme as the comedy part, despite people saying how "original" _American Fiction_ was.
Also, it had the temerity to be released in my area the same day as _The Book of Clarence,_ a superior film that debuted at number 10 nationwide. It would have done better if _American Fiction_ had come out in February, I'm sure, since it grabbed and divided the same audience. It was rightly criticized for having a change in tone midway from comedy to redemption story. But _American Fiction_ isn't being criticized for its change in tone from comedy to tragedy. Likewise, no one went to another African-American movie, _Origin_ because these other two (plus _The Color Purple)_ were still in theaters and it didn't get much advertising/promotion. It was a journey of discovery that had more to say than _American Fiction._
Go see it again. Try to see differently this time.
American Fiction is a satire and shouldn't be compared to Origin or the Color Purple. You completely misunderstood that scene with the girlfriend when she compliments his work. Monk is depressed, so he's unable to take her in. He's a man apart. What we get out of a film or a work of art is what we put into it, and based on your comments, it appears that you don't know how to watch a film. You are very judgemental and rather closed minded. Which is unfortunate, because this film is a classic. It's so good, I watched it twice.