“Mother of the Blues” premieres today on Netflix and promises to be a hit

It turns out to be the only stellar release that the platform has streaming for today, Netflix has promoted this release on countless occasions, promising to be an authentic and incredible film, which the audience will acclaim.

This is the last film in which we can see the iconic actor Chadwick Boseman, Who unfortunately lost his life due to colon cancer last August, on screen are accompanied by Viola Davis and Glynn Turman, among other great actors who are part of the incredible cast.

The aforementioned film, released today is named after him “The mother of the blues” and tells the story of “Ma Rainey,” a singer in the 1927 era in Chicago, where tension grows between Rainey, her trumpeter, and the rep who wants to control the legendary artist.

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Boseman performs “Levee”, one of his musicians who is in love with the couple “Ma Rainey” and also seeks to claim the musical rights that correspond to him during the 20s, when the music industry was dominated by white people .

The film, directed by George C. Wolfe, Is based on the iconic work of August Wilson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, which we will explain some details in the next paragraphs.

The original title of this film seems to have been too much for Netflix, as it would be called “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”, however, they decided to use better the name we have already mentioned, ignored except by the most recognized bluseros in at the time, Ma Rainey was, in the first decades of the last century, the teacher of none other than Bessie Smith, queen of the genre and entertainment.

Based on a play of the same name, a hit on Broadway in the 80s, the film produced by Denzel Washington and directed by the semi-unknown George C. Wolfe incurs the most outrageous filmed theater.

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Without disguising its origin and without working on the theater as a director with an idea could do, the story of the film takes place almost entirely in a recording studio in Chicago, starring actors who speak aloud. and they cry a lot, suffer, laugh and make faces.

From what the film shows, and references confirm, Rainey would have been the other side of Billie Holiday, while the latter had a really bad time for her status as a woman of color, Rainey (played by Viola Davis, triple nominee and winner of the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for the hitherto unpublished Fences and a strong candidate for this year) has no problem reaching a recording at the time it occurs to him or walk the arm of a lover to which takes several years to him, in a restaurant in which nobody of its race does not shine.

Davis’s Rainey is, in fact, a manner, not exactly sympathetic and overwhelming, a way of defending herself from the white-dominated world, of course, which allowed her to die of a heart attack and not of sadness, addiction, a damaged heart and liver and with the police chasing him to his deathbed, like Holiday.

Now, almost fifty years after Lady Sings the Blues (1972), a curious coincidence occurs between the two: none of the films dedicated to them is at all up to par, therefore, in “The mother of the blues “, Rainey appears with the face hyper made up, blushed cheeks and the mascara perpetually run, putting conditions to him to the white owners of the recording studio and putting itself with the adjustments of its musicians.