Is the 7.2 score an indication of modern day bigotry?
Is it?
shareI don't think so. I was so excited to watch this movie and, honestly, it was just boring. I wanted some kind if emotion from the movie or from the actors but it never got one.
Hate to say this but Negga didn't deserve an oscar nom. She was even more emotionless than Edgerton...which is saying a lot.
In my opinion Ruth Negga played the role with something called "quiet dignity" which is what the real person had apparently, and her love for her husband shone through. It's not an Oscar bait performance by any standard, it's real.
shareI would like to think not. The film is very circumspect. The characters possess little ability to articulate themselves besides the plain obvious demonstration of their love. That really is sufficient, not only for them, but for the national case on a constitutional level.
There is no climax, no inspired speeches, no love scenes. That such an innocuous, taciturn couple could be used as a vehicle to get to the supreme court and change the law is absurd, a measure of how untenable the anti-miscegenation law was. The lack of any climax is intentional: any climax at all would merely lend credence to an opposition that has none.
So my feeling is that it's the pace of the film and the simple dignity of the couple that might disappoint people looking for something a bit more emotionally expansive or something more concerned with the national importance of the case. Everything here is in the looks they share, the body language, the warmth and certainty they find in each other.