The highlight of a mediocre Toronto International Film Festival was this comedy about a frustrated black author. It's now being talked about for the big prizes, writes Kaleem Aftab.
, and a host of Wes Anderson movies, which are no real reflection of his talent given that he is regularly acclaimed within critics' circles as one of the best character actors working on screen and stage today.
He pays the bills by working as an academic, and appears on literary panels attended by only a handful of people.
Wright's Ellison is ready to explode when a novel called We Lives in da Ghetto by Sintara Golden becomes a bestseller. He believes that the success of a book that uses a so-called street patois and makes a virtue of lousy grammar as proof of an"authentic voice" only serves to propagate unhelpful stereotypes.
It's such an entertaining film that it's easy to overlook the fact that the comedy only works because it depicts structural racism in such an exaggerated black-and-white manner.
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