Review of Mudbound (2017) by Michaelobe — 24 Nov 2017

1940s. Henry McAllan is moving with his wife Laura, kids and father to a cotton farm in the Mississippi delta. Henry's father is a racist, considering all blacks should be grateful that owners give them the opportunity to harvest cotton in their land. A war is coming, to which the McAllan's family send little brother of Henry - Jamie, and the black family Jacksons (Hap and Florence) let go to the war the eldest son Roncel. Of course, "Mudbound" about the racial issue, which even after several decades remains acute, but here it is not artificially built and suffered, it shown so much, clearly and realistically, that viewers could only admire this movie.

War changes people, but does not change prejudices in society. And this is the second part of the movie, directed by Dee Rees. Here the mud embodies not only the surroundings to the McAllan's house, but also the views of individual characters. There is no defined protagonist here, everyone gets time to uncover and speak out. And the cast ensemble forms a vivid portrait of the American southerners in the 1940s. "Mudbound" is a rigid film about that nobody can treat anyone like dirt and that there an opposition between we and they should not exist anymore.