‘The Underground Railroad’ is traumatic, unflinching and relentless – also beautiful, must-see TV
By Bethonie ButlerThe Washington Post
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Barry Jenkins unpacks two legacies in “The Underground Railroad.” One is ugly and horrific, the resounding echo of an institution that stripped human beings of their culture and identity and enslaved them for profit. The other is beautiful and stirring, marked by resilience and resolve.
These legacies have been intertwined for the last 400 years, but few, if any, onscreen efforts have explored their uneasy convergence as intentionally and cohesively as Jenkins’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The filmmaker brings Whitehead’s alternate history – anchored by a literal underground railroad that clandestinely transports runaway slaves – to vivid and visually stunning life.
ThyBlackMan.com) For anyone who tunes into
The Underground Railroad on Amazon Prime Video, it’s important to understand the genius of what you’re watching. It’s equally important to understand that you may not like what you see to the point of revulsion.
The award-winning novel by Colson Whitehead has been adapted for the screen by screenwriter Jihan Crowther with an assist by director Barry Jenkins, Jacqueline Hoyt, Nathan Parker Allison Davis and Adrienne Rush. On the earth, there is constant drama and strife centered around the institution of slavery. Cora (Thuso Mbedu) is a runaway slave in a perpetual state of escape. She’s hunted by an evil white slave tracker Ridgeway (Joel Edgerton,
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