Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

Yesterday my friend and I saw "The Oath".  It has been compared to "Get Out" and it has some of that same nightmare in suburbia feel to it.  Like "Get Out" the ending is comforting more than likely.  But the film has many funny moments and captures the zeitgeist of now.  I really liked the reversal of expectations inherent in Tiffany Haddish's portrayal of a suburban mom.  Everyone is great in it, and as a portrait of rage among ordinary people it is dead on.  There is some violence, and it is realistic enough to put the viewer right in the middle.  You actually want to shout at the characters and put your two cents into the mix.  I'd say that is the definition of engaged.  And it is, of course, a gigantic metaphor for divisions in our country right now.  Maybe crude, but I don't think so.  And it skewers all of us, like an equal opportunity mirror.