American Fiction (2023)
★★★½
This review may contain spoilers.
I was really excited to watch this movie in theaters but the theaters around me stop showing it early. So I had to wait for digital it was pretty good I liked it, writing is pretty good and the message of an artist trying to make art that meets his standers while also trying to appease the public connects with me and probably most artists right now, the soundtrack is nice and jazzy swings along from song to song, the cinematography isn’t stunning or eye catching in the film it’s pretty ehh bland in the kindest words, a few really really good shots here and there, and the characters are pretty great while I feel they all have the same talking style after a few minutes it becomes less weird to listen to a bit more natural to the world they are telling it in. Over all pretty good movie Jeffery wright and sterling k brown are a stand out in the movie glad sterling got an Oscar nom for this, completely unrelated but I just love Issa Rae, Keith David and Patrick Fischler just overall and I wanted to note that.
Notes below
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- I love the opening credits vibrant!
- the jazzy soundtrack is very pleasant
- everyone kind of feels like they speak the same kind of words is that the right way to put it? Like the words there saying sound like they are the same character but they aren’t they are different
- the scene with his mother, monk, and Lisa and his sister is pretty well shot, moving kind of around very little cuts.
- the disconnect this character has from his family seems pretty significant, he doesn’t have a clue what’s going on with his family
- seems like there is a lot of resentment between sterling k brown and Jeffery wrights character as if they resentment in early 20s and now it’s coming ahead
- seems like the movie is present a lot of cool concepts and ideas but it’s falling a bit flat in the delivery
- I LOVE the writing scene very good the movie should be that! That’s such a good idea for a movie.
- good metaphor with the alcohol love that.
- the silence that rung out after she said that was amazing.
- the stair way with all the pictures was a great shot, best shot in the whole movie
- I do think that sterling k brown stole the show here he is the best performance.
- the endings got me they were pretty good but the actual ending was very fitting and well done.
