AN AMERICAN CLASSIC...!

Rating: 10/10 (30 July 2018)

Mudbound is the story of two returning GI's coming back from combat during WWII to an America that hasn't changed at all. Being that the soldiers are black & white, are both undergoing the onset of war trauma & their financial straits are pretty much the same cannot overcome the inherit racism which will keep them apart. Dee Rees, in her strongest outing yet as a writer/director, takes a page from the book of Terence Malick using multiple voice overs from various characters to weave a tableau of regret, hate & inevitability. No easy answers are found here but one hopes the slow but steady steps of progress makes this tale hopeful.