Film Drop | Mudbound

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This is still one of the best @Netflix original movies on the platform. Mudbound is a powerful generational story of race, family, class and trauma in Jim Crow America, at a time when young men from all classes and races were returning from war to find that the normal rules that were suspended abroad, still applied back home in rural Mississippi. The film follows parallel narratives of a black family and a white family who work a common plot of land and each have a son off fighting the war. It’s a devastating tale, culminating in shocking violence and tragedy. The acting is stellar (@therealmaryjblige and Carey Mulligan are particularly brilliant) and the directing is nuanced, thoughtful and expertly executed by Dee Rees.