Mudbound

Writer/Director Dee Rees’ Mudbound is an extremely well-made, extremely well-acted movie, but I wouldn’t advise going, if you are desiring to be entertained.  

Taking place in the early to mid-1940s, the film’s main characters, a young woman (Carey Mulligan), married to a Mississippi farmer (Jason Clarke); his World War II pilot brother (Garrett Hedlund ) and a Black tank sergeant (Jason Mitchell ) whose parents (Mary J. Blige and Rob Morgan) are tenant workers on the farmer’s land, are all immersed in a Post-War ancestral Trump Trash world of horrid humanity.

The film is guaranteed to make you want to cry and/or increase your resolve toward activism as you recognize its parallel to today’s America.

For those who dare, I give Mudbound a 4.4 out of 5.