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Presenters shocked the world last night by presenting the Academy Award for Best Picture to the wrong movie due to a clerical error. While no one wanted this onstage situation, in which La La Land producers were asked to physically hand their Oscars over to Moonlight, it’s nice to have such a wonderful visual representation of what essentially happened behind the scenes.
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As La La Land danced through theaters the past few months to the tune of $137.5 million domestic, a record-tying 14 Academy Award nominations and a Best Picture victory that’s been presumed to be in the bag for months now, it’s also picked up a few serious accusations. Some say it’s white-washing black erasure. Some say it’s fascist propaganda.
Let’s put that shit to bed right now.
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When Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya) drives up to the country with his girlfriend, Rose Armitage (Allison Williams), things go wrong immediately. Her family — father Dean (Bradley Whitford), mother Missy (Catherine Keener) and brother Jeremy (Caleb Landry Jones) — are clearly uncomfortable around her black boyfriend, and it soon becomes apparent the entire town is as well. Additionally, the black members of the community seem strange and off-kilter. As Washington tries to impress his girlfriend’s family, he is exposed to the town’s sinister workings.
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