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Some recent examples: - Florida project - 3 billboards outside Ebbing Missouri - La La Land (to a degree) - Manchester by the Sea - Straight Outta Compton
by SoylentOrange 9y ago
Some recent examples:
- Florida project
- 3 billboards outside Ebbing Missouri
- La La Land (to a degree)
- Manchester by the Sea
- Straight Outta Compton
- Creed
2015 and more recent, set in the USA, nominated for awards at Oscars, protagonist is poor
- mdpye 9y ago"Protagonist is poor" doesn't come close to what they are advocating. From the article: Take The Same Kind of Different As Me, a movie that presents itself as being about a homeless black man, but is most interested in a rich white couple and the way their volunteerism at a soup kitchen saves their marriage, and their souls. The protagonist being a caricature of a poor person doesn't make the film an insightful or interesting examination of poverty. Or even about poverty. That takes much more. It's more or a challenge, more of a risk, and when done well (see Florida Project) a much greater potential reward.
- CoolGuySteve 9y agoI, Tonya as well. The plot is mainly driven by classism against Tonya Harding. It seems poverty actually had a pretty solid representation at the Oscars this year.
- thirdsun 9y agoI'd like to add American Honey: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3721936/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3721936/