Racial conflict is still very present in the United States, despite the great progress made to achieve equal opportunities between whites and blacks. However, the perpetuation of certain negative stereotypes of African Americans is an endemic evil of American society that continues to view this population in a reductionist way. In American Fiction, Thelonious “Monk” Ellison (Jeffrey Wright) is a writer and literature professor at a Los Angeles university who is disenchanted with the current panorama of the publishing world and the culture of his country in general. His works, despite having great critical prestige, fail to achieve commercial success and his latest manuscript does not get any major publisher interested in its publication. After an incident in class with a student, Monk is “invited” to take a vacation and travels to Boston, where he is originally from, to visit his sister Lisa (Tracee Ellis Ross) and his elderly mother Agnes (Leslie Uggams). The fortuitous and tragic death of his sister will force Monk to take care of his mother, who is showing the first symptoms of Alzheimer's, without much help from his brother Clifford (Sterling K. Brown). In addition, he will begin a romantic relationship with his neighbor Coraline (Erika Alexander) that will disrupt his vision of life. The conflict is generated when Monk, fed up with trying to publish his latest work, which they say is not too “black” and seeing the success of the novelist Sintara Golden (Issa Rae), decides to write a novel ridiculing African-American stereotypes and signed with the pseudonym Stagg R. Leigh, a foul-mouthed and rude fugitive from justice, who will nevertheless be considered a master when it comes to portraying black culture. From there, the film will be a succession of comic situations whose mission will be to expose some of the absurdities of woke culture and the cultural appropriation of African Americans.

The script, written by director Cord Jefferson himself, adapts the novel Erasure by Percival Everett and is sensational, very agile and balanced, making the narrative easy to follow and without downtime that could cause boredom. It is a classic script, with well-structured acts and solid plots that do not present any narrative holes. The dialogues also stand out, sparkling, full of irony and sarcasm. The performances, especially that of the great Jeffrey Wright, who carries the absolute weight of the film, are outstanding, and we should also mention Sterling K. Brown, who shines especially in each of the few scenes he stars in. As for the staging, it must be said that it is very functional, without any fuss, it is at the service of the magnificent script written by Jefferson. And the original music composed for the film, the work of Laura Karpman, based on elegant jazz pieces, is the icing on the cake, and has earned this modest film one of the five Oscar nominations.

It is a shame that American Fiction has gone so unnoticed in Spain since it has not even been released in theaters, being relegated to being shown directly on Amazon Prime Video. More mediocre films do manage to arrive, and this one, despite its five Oscar nominations, has not achieved distribution. Let's hope that although it can only be seen on this platform, it will find its audience, because it is a very intelligent, sarcastic and funny comedy-drama, which reflects on very current issues that need to be paid attention to.

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