paid in full They say this movie is based on a play...so I was focused on the dialogue. The dialogue was good. Overall it was a good movie if you are prepared for it. By that I mean that if you expect an action movie you will be dissapointed. This is a drama that puts some light on the relationships within a black family. Personally, as a black person raised in a black family, I felt interested by the story.

Panagiotis Stavropoulos Viola Davis and Denzel Washington were both excellent as expected.The problem with this movie is the fact that it is lost in a dilemma:Giving a universal message and inspire people or to make people cry over the characters' personal dramas.

Neil Welch Troy is a middle-aged garbage collector in 1950s Pittsburgh. Though he gets some enjoyment from life, he is rather bitter about his past, and brings that along into his relationship with his teenage son Cory, with wife Rose doing her best to mediate between them. Life isn't wonderful, but it could get worse... The story in this film is set up in the trailer, but there is a development at the two-thirds point which comes as a surprise, and which drives developments up to the end of the film.Having said that, the plot is secondary: this film is primarily a character study. As the film progresses, we learn how Troy became the man he is: cognisant of his responsibilities as a family man, loving, bullying, kind, controlling, narrow-minded and long-sighted - in short, full of the contradictions which make every one of us a human being.Denzel Washington, directing and starring in the film version of the play which he and co-star Viola Davis played successfully on Broadway, controls this film both behind and in front of the camera. It is a brilliant performance. By the time this film is finished, you love this man and despise him at the same time, attitudes which are shared by his son Cory.But every member of the cast is exemplary. Viola Davis deserved her Oscar nomination, but I greatly like Mykelti Williamson, playing a part which is some distance from his usual range.My sole reservation is that the film is somewhat depressing: despite his positive notes, Troy isn't a very likeable man, and he carries a great deal of not very likeable baggage with him. But that is not the point of this story, it IS this story. And it's a story which is worth seeing for the performances alone.

qiu_xinzhi Fences was better than I expected it to be. This is a truthful story about America in the 1950s, bringing across themes such as race and religion as truthfully as possible. Other themes such as a parent's love for their child, a child's hopes and dreams, as well as a couple's love, was brought about many times throughout the film and was delivered to great satisfaction. Denzel Washington was amazing as the lead of being Troy Maxson, creating a character that we hated and loved, loathed, yet sympathized, and brought about a truly life-sized and three dimensional character. His intensity stole every scene he was in and his words was delicate, yet tough and scary at times.Viola Davis, as Rose, brought about an emotional performance as the wife of Troy Maxson, and was done so well that I actually felt an emotional connection with her.There are emotionally high and low moments that succeeded. I wept and cheered, and was genuinely angry at some of the decisions the main character makes. Rarely does such a film make me so engrossed in their characters. Fences is truly one of the best films of 2017.