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Thats a nice way of saying it, he told me.
It was written from a color-blind perspective.
It was probably written white.
The problem with color-blind writing is it suggests race is inconsequential to the lives we lead.
It is as if Hollywood believes that blackness can be shrugged off, exorcised from the lives of characters.
Race affects our understanding of ourselves, our world, and where we map into it.
How could it not influence how we move and who we are in ways both minute and grand?
InDont Let Go,the color-blind writing is most evident in how anonymous and indistinct the characters feel.
But just as Jack begins blunting his grief with alcohol, he starts to get calls from Ashley.
ButDont Let Gois a slog.
The two actors display a warmth and tenderness that infuse the film with its few sparks of genuine feeling.
How can we care about anyones past if we dont know who they are in the first place?
Los Angeles is rendered with a sickly, muted sheen.
The blocking of the actors leeches the drama upon which certain scenes in the last act rely.
But again, Jack and Ashley have a dynamic that is a pleasure to watch.
Oyelowo and Reid charge the movie with a warm, familial chemistry from the start.
Other actors in the film fare worse.
