Denzel Washington and Viola Davis can only be a recipe for a good movie. That's what i said to myself when I saw the cast of Fences. And it was the last movie of 2017 best picture nominations which I haven't seen yet. So I had enough reasons to give it a try.
If there is one thing to be said about this movie is this: Viola Davis is superb. Her acting gives you chills. It is that good. Her oscar was really well deserved. I really can't put into words how good she is. The movie is basically plain dialog so you can understand that the whole cast did a great job.
But the most complex character is Denzel's Troy. He seems to love his wife very much and it seems they really have good relationship...untill you find out he is cheating on her. At first he looks like a really good father figure, working man, providing for his family. But suddenly he seemed to me just like someone with a big drinking problem, trying to project his life ambitions on his son in a very agressive way. Or more like he was trying to prevent his son to be more succesfull than him. Cory was a succesfull man in the end. But was it all worth it? At the end he just hated his father for all he did.
