Thandiwe Newton, as she now spells her first name, finally gets a role she can really sink her teeth into with God’s Country, a disturbing, unusually class-and-race-conscious modern Western that pa…
God’s Country
The next day, the locals come back, park their truck and head up into the woods without saying a word. When they return, they find Sandra has moved their vehicle somewhere else. By this time we’re a half-hour into the movie and about all we’ve seen are micro-aggressions that don’t speak well of anyone’s attitudes or openness to being friendly good neighbors.
Even though Sandra’s belligerent behavior grows increasingly disturbing, the forthright attitude the film ultimately takes toward her issues emerges as quite refreshing. Neither the writer-director nor the leading actor begs for any sympathy, and Newton goes truer and deeper into her character than she may ever have had the opportunity to do before.
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