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FENCES<\/strong>
\nParamount Pictures<\/strong>
\nReviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya<\/strong>
\nGrade: A-<\/strong>
\nDirector:\u00a0 Denzel Washington<\/strong>
\nWritten by: August Wilson based on his play<\/strong>
\nCast: Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Mykelti Williamson, Russell Hornsby, Saniyya Sidney, Jovan Adepo<\/strong>
\nScreened at: AMC Lincoln Sq., NYC, 11\/19\/16<\/strong>
\nOpens: December 25, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

Regular moviegoers may see no small irony relating to Donald Trump\u2019s elevation to the presidency.\u00a0 Just as movies are pouring out of Hollywood and the independent studios about the awful heritage of slavery and segregation, just as Americans are now regularly aware of the tragic fate of minorities in our democracy, and just when progressive officeholders and the courts have pushed back the artificial boundaries that have kept African-Americans down, we are facing a Thermidorean reaction.\u00a0 The Supreme Court, the White House, the Capitol are being set up for reaction.\u00a0 In \u201cThe Color Purple\u201d and \u201cThe Butler,\u201d in \u201cRoots\u201d and \u201cHidden Figures,\u201d Black men and women push back against attempts by the Establishment to marginalize them, to deny them a future.\u00a0 One such person is August Wilson. When August Wilson wrote \u201cFences,\u201d he was not concerned with a documentary-style, politicized bit of agitation propaganda. Instead the late, great playwright for whom a theater on Broadway in named focused on one man, Troy Maxson, who in the 1950s looked forward to a career as a professional baseball player, but instead wound up with a dead-end job as a garbage collector in his home town (and the playwright\u2019s) of Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

\u201cFences\u201d is one of the so-called Pittsburgh cycle of plays, each to take place in a different decade.\u00a0 Just as TV\u2019s \u201cMad Men\u201d came to life by giving us a picture of the 1960s, \u201cFences\u201d is about the 1950\u2019s, sometimes justifiably considered the most boring American decade in recent times but also one of prosperity.\u00a0 But this prosperity left African-Americans behind, whether through segregation or a refusal to grant Black men and women equivalence with Whites in jobs or living accommodations.<\/p>\n

Troy Maxson (the last name is one of the many symbols for Mason and Dixon, the North and the South.\u00a0 Troy (Denzel Washington) is on the border.\u00a0 He is hopeful to some extent (like Black men in the North) but most pessimistic about his chances in life (the South).\u00a0 What Mr. Washington needed was a top director and A-1 actor to play this complex man, and he found both.\u00a0 They are Denzel Washington.\u00a0 His character\u2019s friends, his family, his wife, all revolve around him. They hang out with him, and listen to his long monologues (and few others can deliver long speeches like Mr. Washington).<\/p>\n

Troy had played pro baseball with the Negro Leagues but because of his race was unable to be picked up by the majors as was Jackie Robinson. He took a job collecting rubbish, and in the fifties, you did not just throw plastic bags into the truck.\u00a0 You had to empty the trash without a cover, breathing in the noxious fumes.\u00a0 His fellow collector, the older Mr. Bono (Stephen Henderson), would mostly listen, but when he gave advice, Troy listened but usually did nothing.<\/p>\n

Troy\u2019s wife, Rose (Viola Davis)\u2014so named because the playwright\u2019s mother\u2019s name was Daisy\u2014loved him, put up with his nonsense.\u00a0 She would invite Bono in for the chicken she seems always to have on the fire.\u00a0 Troy\u2019s older son, Lyons (Russell Hornsby), lived for music, which did not provide him with an adequate living.\u00a0 He is forced to borrow ten dollars from his dad, who accused him of being just plain lazy.\u00a0 Troy\u2019s son, Cory (Jovan Adepo), is a seventeen-year-old on his high-school football team being recruited for a college scholarship, but surprisingly (or not), Troy discourages him, insisting that he continue working at A&P and perhaps forget about college.\u00a0 Cory believes that his father simply wanted to prevent the boy from being better than he is.\u00a0 As for the ramshackle home that Troy\u2019s family inhabits, he regularly reminds the boy that he is being provided with a roof over his head and food for his belly, so he\u2019d better not tangle with dad.\u00a0 What remains unsaid is that the house is paid for in part by a disability pension for Gabriel (Mykelti Williamson), who left the War with a metal plate in his head and who acts infantile, holding his horn, parading down the street, and cautioning everyone that St. Peter is waiting.\u00a0 Despite Gabriel\u2019s emotional instability, he is like the movie\u2019s Greek chorus, hinting to Troy of a tragic fate.\u00a0 And indeed, Troy\u2019s secret relationship with a girlfriend (not shown) forces his wife Rose to reassess the situation.<\/p>\n

Is Troy a bad guy or good guy?\u00a0 He\u2019s both.\u00a0 He is a victim of society, which suppressed his talent for the sport of baseball, forcing him into a job as trash collector\u2014which he takes after having accidentally killed a man and landing in jail for fifteen years. He wants everyone around him to act responsibly, yet he appears to forget that his adultery, which comes out only midpoint in an announcement to Rose, is a betrayal of the woman who truly loves him.<\/p>\n

Now, some think that a play, given the live theater\u2019s penchant for long speeches and poetry rather than physical action and visual effects, should remain on the stage; that any attempt to film a genuine, serious, drama will seem strange on the screen.\u00a0 Having seen the play \u201cFences\u201d on Broadway\u2019s 46th Street theater in 1983 with James Earl Jones in the top role and Mary Alice as his wife, I am inclined not to worry about what purists say.\u00a0 Unless you\u2019re sitting around the fifth row center in general, your view of the action is hampered.\u00a0 In fact, even in orchestra seats, if you on the far right or far left, you are likely to see literally only one-half or three-fourths of the stage, and if you\u2019re in the balcony, you\u2019re watching TV.\u00a0 The more plays like August Wilson\u2019s that Hollywood or the indies can make, the better.\u00a0 Make theater accessible to all, not just to the rich and those who live or vacation in New York.<\/p>\n

Denzel Washington\u2019s performance is every bit as good as that of James Earl Jones\u2014but then again, this movie version of \u201cFences\u201d has a great director in addition to a fiercely wonderful actor.<\/p>\n

On the screen, you can appreciate the metaphors, the allegorical aspects, the way that baseball, the sport, stands in for the effects of racism.\u00a0 You will pray that the fence that Troy and his son are building will be completed at least before Troy dies just as you\u2019ll want Troy\u2019s best friend Bono to get his wife that refrigerator.\u00a0\u00a0 The dramatic conclusion, in which poor Gabriel blows his horn, should bring tears to your eyes, as it did mine.\u00a0 All the poetry of the drama, and even the comic touches, especially Troy\u2019s jive-talk to Bono, are there for our enjoyment.\u00a0 Just as Vice-President Elect Mike Pence was at least open-minded enough to see \u201cHamilton,\u201d the play with a conspicuously multicultural cast in November, we hope that he and Donald Trump will stop at a theater whether in New York or Washington to catch \u201cFences.\u201d\u00a0 Maybe it will turn them away from the accused White Nationalism.<\/p>\n

Unrated. 140 minutes.\u00a0 \u00a9 Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online<\/strong><\/p>\n

Story \u2013 A<\/strong>
\nActing \u2013 A-<\/strong>
\nTechnical \u2013 A-<\/strong>
\nOverall \u2013 A-<\/strong><\/p>\n

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