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But when a foster boy named Roger (Joseph Gordon-Leavitt) prays that the team can win his father, who said they'll become a family 'when the Angels win the Pennant', will take him back. The California Angels are a terrible baseball team. However, the biggest issue with the film, as Viola Davis, who plays the role of Aibileen Clark, points out is that 'it wasn't the voices of the maids that were heard' since the story is predominantly told from Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan's (Emma Stone) perspective, in turn, making her come off as a 'white savior.' Nonetheless, this film is included in this list because Davis's performance and the performances by other Black actors including Octavia Spencer, illustrate how powerful women can be, in turn, inspiring the viewers.Īngels in the Outfield tells a wonderful story about believing. The inhumane treatment, the constant casting aside, and the way the Black community has been shunned from society, all these messages make you think deeply about racism that is still prevalent today. The film's core message is based on racism as it shows the abuse the Black women had to encounter when being 'employed' by white families.

Based on Kathryn Stockett's 2009 novel of the same name, this film takes us back to the 1960s-America where Black women worked as maids in white households. The Help might be a controversial film, and it is a film that could've taken a better approach to telling its story.

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If you are someone who is constantly pressuring yourself, this movie is for you. Whiplash will make you rethink many things, including the way we associate 'pushing ourselves' to attain 'perfection'.ĭamien Chazelle, the film's director and writer, points out that Whiplash's story comes from his own experience with a high-school music teacher and that the core message lies on the thin line between pushing yourself to overcome your flaws and pushing yourself over the edge that it leaves a damaging scar on you.

Andrew enters the 'prestigious' Shaffer Conservatory with many ambitions and hopes but what he does not expect is the absurd level of training Fletcher puts him under. Whiplash is a film that makes you witness the mental and physical trauma that the protagonist, Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller) undergoes at the hands of a harsh jazz instructor, Terence Fletcher (J. A film that was both nominated and went on to win multiple awards including two Academy Awards.

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