Fences

it can be a tricky thing to bring a stage play to the big screen. theater is a very personal, often intimate experience, while cinema lends itself to bigger and more bombastic ways. often the most successful adaptations of plays are either musicals -- which can be as over the top as the hollywood films require -- or those that expand the production values and script to make for a bigger, bolder version of the original story. fences doesn't to that. the denzel washington-directed adaptation of august wilson's beloved stage production keeps things small in scope, thus allowing the power of the... read more

pretty sad story, but very well directed and had some excellent symbolism read more