Director Peter Farrelly accepting an Oscar for producing ‘Green Book’
Sunday night’s Oscars ceremony represented a show of conflicting ideas – at moments the increasingly diverse voting Academy seemed to actually be making a change, from Black Panther’s Afrofuturism costume and production design snatching victory from the more typically Oscar-friendly period stylings of The Favourite to the legendary Spike Lee finally receiving his long-overdue recognition. But other decisions were disappointingly retrograde, such as the choice to give the most awards of the evening to the astonishingly generic Bohemian Rhapsody, which took home four trophies including a particularly bewildering editing win as well as best actor for Rami Malek’s flaccid central impersonation. The final honor of the night, best picture, would thankfully bypass Rhapsody but only to go to the similarly ire-attracting Green Book; a tepid, reductive tale of how friendship can solve racism.
But while these two films have rightfully been the subject of much online despair in the hours following the ceremony, there’s one winner that seems to have escaped relatively unscathed: the live-action short winner, Skin. Directed by Iranian filmmaker Guy Nattiv, who’s following up Skin with a feature of the same name to be released by A24 later this year, the twenty-one-minute short follows the family of a white supremacist who brutally beats a black man for smiling at his son in a supermarket. What follows is some of the most misguided, inane storytelling I’ve maybe ever seen.
Submitted February 26, 2019 at 10:03AM by Iceman2913 https://ift.tt/2GKWEyG