Brutally heartbreaking, I was watching this on my laptop on the train and at many scenes I'm there crying my fucking eyes out and this guy goes "why are you crying are you okay?"

I replied saying
"It's cinema bro it's fucking cinema"

dee rees is a FORCE of NATURE

The white farmers digging a grave for their father in the opening scene of Mudbound are about five feet down when they run into a problem: piles of bones suggest that the area has already been used as a cemetery of sorts for former slaves. It’s an inconvenience to them, but so much more for the movie, which at its best captures the way racial oppression has seeped into the very soil of America.

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it's the small gestures that stay with me: henry adjusting laura's discarded shawl while she dances, florence turning her back so she doesn't have to watch her son leave, jamie putting a bouquet of flowers in the shower he builds, ronsel making his mother eat a chocolate bar without saving it for later. love, love, love seeping into the fabric of the film, fighting to stay alive despite everything.

It is impossible to watch Dee Rees' searing "Mudbound" and not feel ashamed. The period drama about a black family and a white family sharing a parcel of land to different ends lays bare the relationship between blacks and whites in mid-century Mississippi. That relationship is foul: a splintered bond built on a history of dehumanization and an abject lack humanity. The film is solidly constructed; the drama is sound; but the emotion generated from the manner by which half of its core characters are treated is overwhelming. It is a sad story, and one necessary to be told.

Nonostante una vaga prevedibilità di tutti gli eventi il film colpisce grazie ad una narrazione ben articolata e corposa, ricca di ottimi personaggi e buoni dialoghi. La vicenda raccontata è ben contestualizzata in un periodo storico già visto ma comunque sempre interessante.

I can’t believe I left this hanging on my watchlist for so long. Must be based on a book (where else would they get all the narration from?). I don’t often rewatch movies, but I think I’ll have to give this one another pass before saying more about it.

alrighty

An absolutely brilliant film with amazing acting and memorable cinematography - I was never bored once. It's so powerful to see a story that doubles down on character development and where everything from the music to the costume design sync up perfectly. I think most of the credit should be given to the author of the novel, which took seven years to write.

"But should my story end there? Silenced and defeated? Oppression,
fear, deformity. It would take an extraordinary man to beat all that."

I think America needs to watch this movie right now with what we're going through.

A-

thoughts: 
i appreciated the use of light/darkness/contrast. added to mood but also setting so well. 
the soundtrack just did so much wow
nice to experience a story during post-reconstruction/pre-civil rights as that period is so often forgotten about/untouched 
how wild of a concept that is was better for the black family’s son to be at war because he has more liberties at war than in his own country. 
wasn’t emotionally/mentally prepared for the final 30 minutes

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.