Native Son
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A young black man named Bigger Thomas takes a job working for a highly influential Chicago family, a decision that will change the course of his life forever.
A young black man named Bigger Thomas takes a job working for a highly influential Chicago family, a decision that will change the course of his life forever.
“Native Son,” the 1939 Richard Wright novel, is a murder story without a mystery. In the first minutes of this stage adaptation by Nambi E. Kelley, we watch Bigger Thomas, a 20-year-old African-American man, suffocate the white daughter of…
The movie is at once struggling with what it wants to say, what it needs to say and what history has said before it, and its message becomes muddled in the process. ... “Native Son” posits Bigger is a victim of circumstance, someone…
The film is set in something resembling the present-day (though the time period is deliberately unclear) and it updates some of the novel’s broadest elements, but keeps many of its particulars intact.Native Son seems suspended in time. By…
