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Rolling Stone ‘The Underground Railroad’: Barry Jenkins’ Gorgeous Journey Into American Darkness
The director’s 10-part adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about an escaped slave is visually stunning and emotionally wrenching
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Moonlight director will pause the story to present a tableau of his huge cast of black characters. These shots are stunning in their composition, as if Jenkins and cinematographer James Laxton are painting an entirely different vision of American history than the one you most commonly find in textbooks and on museum walls. It’s an appropriate touch for a story that weaves in agonizingly real details from our horrible past of racist injustice with Whitehead’s rewriting of yesterday so that, for instance, the titular “underground” is a literal network of subterranean train tunnels that enslaved people like Cora (Thuso Mbedu) and Caesar (Aaron Pierre) use to escape the horrors of a lif
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