Oscar myopia

Roma might have been robbed of the Best Picture award but it managed to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film in a crowded category that had the captivating Polish movie and more

In hindsight, one wonders if 2018 even deserved the quietly poignant and sensitively depicted films on the black experience in America such as Blindspotting, Sorry to Bother You, Black Panther, The Hate U Give, If Beale Street Could Talk and BlacKkKlansman. After all, a movie as basic and sanitised as Green Book robbed these movies of an Oscar for Best Picture. 

“Horrendously mediocre film about race and racism,” thundered Witney Seibold on Twitter moments after the announcement. Hannah Schneider didn’t mince any words either in her tweet: “The fact that the director of Green Book thanked a bunch of white