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Sad times, my phone pedometer only recorded 4.4k of steps today when I've actually done 7k. Mildly curious why it's quite so far off.
No, you're a boring toot.
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CW: American Fiction spoilers
Scrap the idea of the family drama side of this being okay. It gets progressively worse.
At the risk of spoiling things that's deliberate, the film is reframed at the end, a lot is recontextualised, it's clear it is self-aware. This helps far less than you'd expect.
It's not completely devoid of positives but don't see why this one got acclaim. It's unsubtle and shallow, bit of a slog. Arguably that's the point, but it's still a slog.
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Watching American Fiction. Mixed views. Competently executed and the family drama side of the plot is okay (if very thin).
But, admittedly as a white non-American, the other side of the plot to me criticises stereotypes of Black/AA media while indulging in its own form of it. I'd say it at least knows it but it's as subtle as a brick to the face as a film, so can I really be sure?
The two threads of the film barely interact and that's its biggest strength.