Apparently Pointing Out Reality Is “Mean”
The African American family is actually doing better by all counts under the economic policies of The Bad Orange Man, but you wouldn’t know it to look at popular culture outputs and “tastemakers.”
From the wokeratti on Twitter to the Black Lives Matter activists in real life, if you believed the popular culture, middle-class African American lives are in imminent decline, deep in the economic toilet and on the cultural ropes.
But apparently, point out this difference between reality and fantasy is “mean,” “blinkered” and socially unjust, and so, along has come the new film from A24, Waves.
Written and directed by Trey Edward Shults (Krisha, It Comes At Night), Waves is:
Set against the vibrant landscape of South Florida, it traces the epic emotional journey of a suburban African American family as they navigate love, forgiveness and coming together in the aftermath of a loss.
Check out the trailer here, for all the hypocritical “feels”:
The Black Family Damaged by “Evil Whitey” Motif
Starring that black actor from This Is Us who always looks like he’s on the verge of tears (Sterling K. Brown) and a bunch of other black actors you’ve probably seen on the social medias, I’m gonna bet that the “loss” has to somehow do with one of three areas that don’t typically plague African American middle-class folks:
- Gang violence
- Drug Use
- Cops
Most middle-class African American folks aren’t being damaged by the traditional “Evil Whitey” motif and don’t really think too much about the three above areas.
Now, where I will say the trailer absolutely resonates, is the first minute and a half where the father (Sterling K. Brown) is pushing the son (Kelvin Harrison, Jr.) to do and be better with the idea that there isn’t any room for failure in America.
Yep. That’s what my parents told me.
And it’s what ALL American parents tell their kids at a certain point.
That’s what I tell my kids.
And I’m sure that in Waves, he will somehow be positioned as the one who has to change his approach to the world–and child-rearing–because, at the bottom of all of this, is the idea that being excellent is really just a drag on your identity and everything should be easy.
Uh-huh. Ok. Well, go and see Whiplash for how this doesn’t work in the real world at all.
Eh. Ok. Thanks.
Produced by Kevin Turen and James Wilson with A24 producing and distributing, this film represents another potential Oscar nomination for Best Picture for the production company, seeing as how it’s positioned to really tug the heartstrings of the “woke” -eratti and their enablers in the entertainment shill journalism media.
With 52 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and an average critic approval rating of 85%, Waves is on its way as far as Oscar season goes.
Waves premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on August 30, 2019, and screened at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2019.
It is scheduled to be released on November 15, 2019 through Focus Features.
