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User Comments for: The United States vs. Billie Holiday

Lee Brown Barrow Furness says...
3 years ago
The true life story is a sad and emotive one but the film fails to deliver on that. There are moments of power, sometimes because of the great lead performance, but its overlong and a little messy. Disappointing then, but if you don't know the story, it is still worth catching. Wait for the coda at the end of the film too. It shows the US government still have a long way to go when it comes to racial justice...shocking!
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JeanEats says...
3 years ago
It didn’t come across as a feature film to me... more like a made for TV movie. With that said, I only knew the bare minimum about her life before this movie so I enjoyed the glimpse I got. Her life was tragically sad but she was a strong force of nature in her own right. :pound_symbol:strangefruit
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Reply by marathone
3 years ago
@jeaneats Geesus 'Strange Fruit' is such a sad documentary on the South. The lyrics are so powerful! I didn't know that she was harassed to such a degree as this before, by corrupt white FBI agents. I better stop here, or this will become too much of a spoiler. Bittersweet story for me.
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johniixx says...
3 years ago
Is this a biofilm or is this a mexican soap opera? Too much drama here!
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SpiritBreaker says...
3 years ago
The movie was not appropriately edited, as it seems to bounce around Billie Holidays too often, and motives as to why Billie did what she did were not explored. Stoy threads are left dangling as to what happens to some of the people. However, there are some excellent elements they got right the songs and acting they nailed. Other than those two elements, you should skip this one and hope someone will revisit Billie Holidays with a better movie someday.
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eq88 says...
3 years ago
Uhh, this was a comedy. Right?
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Reply by The_Argentinian
3 years ago
@eq88 what's so funny about it? Black people getting lynched?
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miguelreina says...
3 years ago
There are two victims of Lee Daniels' directorial clumsiness: Billie Holiday, who deserved a better film portrait; and Andra Day, who deserved a more appropriate movie to shine. This is a reductionist film: it reduces Billie Holiday to a drug addict who is a good singer; and reduce the historic racial conflict to one song. There's such a messy editing and such erratic directing that it seems surprising.
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ArielRodriguez says...
3 years ago
Very long. The story is not that well executed and after many minutes of the same thing it ends. I liked how they didn't portray Holiday as a nice person but as a real person. Andra Day did a great job. But the movie as a whole is just acceptable.
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