Well-acted, well-directed, well-told, well done!

Rating: 10/10 (26 March 2019)

I loved everything about this movie. Not the usual redemption story and not the common "let's grow together" movie you may have warched before. Firstly and mostly, it's just a very well told story. No matter where do you come from, and what is your background, you can see this movie and enjoy 99.9% of it. Just with a notch of comedy when necessary, inherently charming acting of Viggo, fantastic acting of Maharshala, for which they both received the Oscar nomination, and Maharshala won it for the second time after Moonlight.
It's such an easy movie to watch, and such an easy one to love. Let alone the cinematography and the expected beautiful landscapes when driving in American roads.
I don't completely get the frustration of some film critiques, from not a very trained eye's perspective, it's a complete movie. And isn't what most movies should be about?
Notice the details in the movie, most of which are perfected meticulously. The influence of both main characters on each other that comes from respect, or plain situational necessity, is remarkable. Both characters are vastly different from each other, and I'd assume from people like me. What keeps the audience's focus in tact is for sure the universal values they share. Both of them. Reminding us, no matter the difference in backgrounds, values can be the same and used as infrastructure of relationships, growth, and in some cases prosper.
I'm trying to stay out of spoils, but may I be excused to mention the farm scene? Reminding me once again, that what may lead to a certain race being/staying in a certain class of society.
How prejudice can cause problems all around. It's not just one race towards another. I'm in a place in my life that I'd appreciate the globalization and interracial understandings and relations.
All in all, I'd watch this movie again, I love the music in it from the very first scene. I love how the story is told in a soft way. I love how Mahaeshala and Bowers worked together to create all the Piano scenes, which to be honest, is so cool. I love how the amount of redemption in the movie is not that big to be interpreted as excessive or emotionally surprising, yet not that small to omit its significance. I just love that this movie has people who do good and the ones who do bad. To me it's just real!
How Dr. Shirley tries to impact the society with his music knowing the obstacles is another great interest of mine. I love a good struggle when I see it, and I loved this one.