It's a Netflix movie so it's a pretty low bar for me to be entertained (e.g., Bird Box) but three was an underlying subtext of the film that bothered me. Perhaps a Spolier: I feel like the underlying premise (or subtext) of the movie is that Elijah wanted more than his simple black family had to offer and he would not find happiness until he was able to enter the white world of being a sommelier. I mean dude had an opportunity to be the owner of a thriving black restaurant business to chase an opportunity to work in a white restaurant? Why is that the goal? Because one is upscale and the other is downscale?

I must admit. My opinion is shaded by the fact that I think a large part of the wine scene is pretentious as hell. I couldn't make it through Sideways. So I was watching the movie and couldn't get into his struggle to become a sommelier and had not alot of interest in learning what it takes to become one. Throw the racial element on top of that and I was done.

I don't want to knock a black film too much publically but yeah...

I could be reading too much into it so I am curious to see if anyone else had the same takeaway.


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