American Fiction
Thelonious “Monk” Ellison's writing career has stalled because his work isn’t deemed “Black enough.” Monk, a writer and English professor, writes a satirical novel under a pseudonym, aiming to expose the publishing world's hypocrisies. The book’s immediate success forces him to get deeper enmeshed in his assumed identity and challenges his closely-held worldviews.
- Released:
- Runtime: 117 minutes
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Stars: Myra Lucretia Taylor, Erika Alexander, Sterling K. Brown, Adam Brody, Leslie Uggams, John Ortiz, Jeffrey Wright, Issa Rae, Tracee Ellis Ross, Skyler Wright, Patrick Fischler, Carmen Cusack, Dustin Tucker, Michael Jibrin, David De Beck, Michele Proude, Keith David, Kate Avallone, Okieriete Onaodowan, Miriam Shor
- Director: Cord Jefferson
Comments
- ryanfisli - 2 July 2024
This movie is META
A movie about a black author tired of the simple and unidimensional exposure of the African-American culture and white people regarding it as holy work. As a protest, he fed them with a fiction of his own about the poverty and the hardships that come with being black. The book is so void of anything to him and his PhD in literature that he sends it to publishers as a joke, but little did he know that it was the demise of his morale. As some might find the end disappointing, it is very highlighting the whole speech of the movie. Because by the end, the audience is treated as the movie's white people; when it could have stopped on a question mark, it proposes an alternative ending that would please the masses. - 007Waffles - 7 June 2024
Disappointing ending
I'm not a fan of the ending. The movie does a great job introducing you to a complicated character who cannot connect with the rest of the world only to reveal it was just a movie within a movie. So whatever you feel for this character can change just as easily as the fictional, fictional ending changes several times. This made me feel nothing for this character. What a bummer.
They had a good story until they took it all away and it literally became nothing. They should have started with the ending first and let the viewer decide if you want to move forward in watching this. I won't watch the sequel.
