August Wilson’s 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Fences, is one of unwieldy power and prose, telling the story of a black man living in 1950s America, struggling with the continually changing race relations in the country at the time, all while forced to come to terms with the decisions he’s made in his life while raising his family. Denzel Washington, after acting in the play several years ago to critical acclaim, has now brought it to life on the big screen this year, with most of the same cast members he acted with on Broadway, and unsurprisingly, Fences remains an incredible play in this film adaptation, but that’s also its biggest problem.
Directed by and starring Washington, who’s reprising the role he won a Tony for in 2010, Fences is an admirably faithful adaptation of Wilson’s play, which all too often feels out of place on the big screen because of it. Instead of letting the visual versatility that cinema offers help to expand Wilson’s story, or offer a more immersive version of the source material, Fences unfortunately ends up feeling too constricted by its original format and structure.
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