{"id":30036,"date":"2020-08-08T13:44:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T18:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=30036"},"modified":"2020-08-08T13:44:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T18:44:09","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-592","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/08\/08\/belated-movie-reviews-592\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I don’t think you’ll find that word in the Scrabble dictionary.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

It’s been weeks since we watched Fast Color<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (2018), and I’m still not sure what to make of it, outside of the obvious fact that it’s marvelously well acted. Ruth is a young black woman, traveling through the American West in a world plagued with drought. She’s headed for her family’s ancestral home, where her mother, Bo, and daughter, Lila, live. But she has a problem she cannot control: seizures. When they happen, she ties herself down, and then the earth moves for her.<\/p>\n

Literally.<\/p>\n

The government is searching for her, because power worries the powerful, but Ruth is resourceful. We reach her family’s farm with her, and discover that Bo and Lila each have powers of their own, but they control their’s – Ruth cannot control her’s. Pressure builds on Ruth, aware that the government is moving in on her and her family from one side, and her own family is pushing her as well – and, all the while, the lack of water is yet another force in her life, a dearth that may motivate the violence which accompanies the existentially threatened, especially when some are different from others. What will these raw forces pull out of Ruth, whose own restless nature wishes to follow its own course?<\/p>\n

While some might call this a superhero movie, it’s not. Such stories have good guys and bad guys, and it’s not clear there are any bad guys here. It’s more of a meditation on the clash between mature judgment and the urges concomitant with being outcasts and different. It takes its time to build characters and advance lines of thought, but organically within the plot and world it’s building.<\/p>\n

And it’s good.<\/p>\n

Recommended<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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