Late To the Oscars...What'd I Miss?

[chatchien]

I had actually seen all the Oscar nominated movies for 2016? 2017? (that always confuses me) before the Oscar broadcast, but due to a wrist injury, I never posted about them.

So now, after the Oscar Kerfuffle---who won Best Picture BTW? I will review what is Gone and Past (like Gone With the Wind but not so hungry).

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[dawnybee]

but due to a wrist injury, I never posted about them.

Glad you're on the mend.

Have you ever read Black Boy by Richard Wright? It is memoir of his youth growing up black in the South of the early 20th century and Jim Crow laws.

Surprisingly it was required reading in my school. I would think that McCraney may have been inspired in the sense that he's been moved to tell a very personal story like Wright did. Moonlight" is his story--it's his life as a gay man whose mother was an addict

this is never brought up. A pity, that in Black History month, such recent literary and artistic history and the probable antecendent for this movie is forgotten. I can recommend the movie and the book.

True. I think we need to look to the classics spotlighting the Black Diaspora but also usher in new voices and new outlooks. I still have "I Am Not Your Negro" on deck--the documentary about James Baldwin. I'm very happy about people seeing it and coming out either reinvigorated by his insight and those who are just discovering him.

She had the

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[chatchien]

Glad you're on the mend.

You are so kind. 😊

Surprisingly it was required reading in my school. I would think that McCraney may have been inspired in the sense that he's been moved to tell a very personal story like Wright did. Moonlight" is his story--it's his life as a gay man whose mother was an addict

I read it in high school too, but it was not required reading, no surprise. My lab partner in Chem was reading it and she recommended it to me. I loved it.

And yes, it is a step up the mountain from being black in Jim Crow land to being black and gay and the child of a dysfunctional mother. And then James Baldwin took it a step further to being "gifted" and gay and a preacher in Jim Crow land. I still have to see the documentary on James Baldwin that was nominated. I will be seeing it. I hope we can discuss it. I suppose that is why I like Jane Eyre so much. All these people are able to overcome their circumstances with their inheritances of self and inner being and awareness (and a little luck doesn't hurt either).

Naomie Harris

[dawnybee]

I was surprised that this movie was nominated. The combat scenes were surprisingly static, they didn't move. Watch any Kurosawa samurai movie or Steven Spielberg's first thirty minutes of Saving Private Ryan to see how a combat movie should move. Or watch Battleground, an old William Wellman movie of the Battle of the Bulge in WWII, to see how an action and combat movie should handle the calm between the abrupt spikes of chaos of battle. This movie did not compare to any of these.

I thought the Academy would get nowhere near the 10 slots, and I think they were reaching when they pushed 8 because "Hacksaw" and "Arrival" were two, to me, that had no business even being in the discussion for Best Film.

•Ryan Gosling is a good dancer.He moves fluidly. Emma Stone is charming.I think they're both charmer. I love Gosling I actually like his singing but everything about this film was subpar. The songs, other than the one you pointed out, where like half thought out. I couldn't believe they were nominated let alone won!!! "Audition" being

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[chatchien]

The character of Amy Adams, through her loss of her daughter, gained the knowledge of Time and its repercussions. Through her efforts to reach out to the Aliens, she gained more than she lost, as did the Aliens if what a few scattered thrown-away-lines indicated were true. The linguist gained a husband that she lost, she gained a daughter whom she lost, but then she got them back in the circle of Time.

I could go on, but I loved Arrival. And Amy Adams was robbed of a nomination.

even "Hugo" IMO were self-indulgent bores.

NO!!!!! 😳 Not Hugo!!!!!
Ok, it wasn't his best, but it was a tribute to the Silent movies! And I love my Silent movies.

I think the scene was important for the audience because the thought (for me) was "Her sharing this with him will give him the healing he needs." He gets everything one would want on a platter: absolution from this terrible tragedy from the one person besides himself who it affected the most. He gets at but what good does it do when one doesn't forgive themselves?
Yeah, you're right. The audience