Mudbound is a film that doesn't pull the punches in showing the reality of racism in the post-World War II south. The realism that is put into this film makes me feel many emotions including sadness, anger, and even guilt. It is hard for me to believe that people could be so cruel and inconsiderate to someone just because they had different color skin. Racism was not the only thing covered in this film. Other subjects included PTSD, family, and gender roles.The technical aspects of the film were also well done. The Cinematography was beautiful and I thought the acting from Mary J. Blige, Garret Hedlund, Jason Mitchell, and Rob Morgan was great. I would definitely recommend this.Side note: I don't think I have ever hated a character more than the grandfather!

This is the kind of movie people who read books love. Although the plot spans less than 10 years, it has an epic feel. Family relationships, racism, poverty and combat trauma are intertwined in the story of two families and the Deep South culture in which they live in the early to mid 1940s. A white land-owning family and a black tenant-farmer family are interdependent on each other, both poor, the black family only more so. Despite trauma and brutality (one scene is especially violent), the movie was not depressing. The reality of the dependence of farmers on the weather, the land and luck is a subtle theme in the background of this film about characters. The ironic experience of black soldiers who fought for a still-segregated home country returning to that culture is the films' dramatic crux. There are probably many historical lessons for younger people in this film.

Not many films delivers such a touching story. 10/10 should watch

This is one of those movies that revolves/bases it's entire story around a single theme, which will never show a story based in reality, because everything that happens happens exactly how the theme wants it to happen. Basically every single white person is a lazy, whining racist or someone who absolutely hates those evil, racist people, while every single black person is a moral, hard working hero. Yes, these types of people did exist back then, but they weren't every single human that lived and showing caricatures like this in movies today are doing nothing to help race relations. This movie could have been so much better if it had shown real stories from real people from back then instead of just going for more race baiting, Oscar begging repetition. You wonder why there are race riots in 2017 when there weren't in 2010? Ask Hollywood and everyone else that can profit off of conflict.