A new MGM film forcing white liberals to confront their own hypocrisy in Hollywood and beyond is receiving critical acclaim from the same people it skewers.Cord Jefferson's 'American Fiction' is a commentary on the way the establishment tends to favor reductive portraits of blackness in the name of diversity and inclusion, often at the expense of quality.The movie tells the story of a black professor, Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison played by Jeffrey Wright, who is fed up with his snowflake students and struggling to get any critical interest in his work, so jokingly pens a novel littered with racial stereotypes only for it to become an overnight success.
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