Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst Social Action
Committee presents:
Mudbound, a 2017 film about two veterans, one black, one
white, and their respective experiences when they return home from WWII. The New
York Times review puts it this way: ‘‘Mudbound" is a Racial Epic Tuned to Black
Lives and White Guilt.
"Mudbound" is a movie about how things change — slowly,
unevenly, painfully. It is also, as the title suggests, about how things don’t
change, about the stubborn forces of custom, prejudice and power that lock
people in place and impede social progress. Set mainly in the Mississippi Delta
in the years just after World War II, when Jim Crow was still enshrined in law
and practice, the film, directed by Dee Rees, tests and complicates William
Faulkner’s much-quoted claim about the not-even-pastness of the past. It’s a
work of historical imagination that lands in the present with disquieting,
illuminating force….” (N.Y. Times, November 16, 2017)
Refreshments will be served.
Wednesday, March 21, 7- 9:15PM
Unitarian Universalist Society of
Amherst
121 N. Pleasant Street, Amherst
Questions: 413-253-2848
