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Unique Films To Look Forward To In 2020
There are films besides droll “Oscar contender” in the vein of The English Patient, Atonement, and Green Book to get excited about.
Those films are made with Oscars in mind rather than crafting a heartfelt story. The consideration is not the audience but what the “audience who votes” desire to see, oftentimes formulaic drivel.
*cue Kat Williams #GreenBookWasn’tGood in “Astronomy Club”. If you haven’t seen it, “Astronomy Club”, go watch it on Netflix.
The films that often win Oscars and other awards are disconnected from those who truly consume the cinematic medium. The films are either a typical ode to whiteness and all the aspects that whiteness can be (quirky, romantic, heroic, futuristic, etc), films where whiteness reminisce about the good ol’ days, or films that deal with Black people or POC existing with trauma through a white lens. The ones outside of this are rare. It is possible to make a film where the focus is not solely on how whiteness treats us or how we navigate it at large. There are moments in our lives where we are not code-switching and there is nary a ghostly Bob or Becky in sight.
Because of the current climate and saturation of specific types of films, it takes a lot for a trailer to pique my interest, let alone fire me up, especially if they are part of the above categories…
