All of the actors played their roles well but the entire premise of this plot taking place sometime in the 1940s-50s requires too much suspension of disbelief. The asynchronous and constant use of modern terms of political correctness and unabashed activism (apparently I can't say on whose behalf or the review is declined) is about as subtle as using a cannon to kill a mosquito. There's even a scene about not wanting to make a "message" movie that seems to have lacked any self-awareness. Given the time period of the plot, if a lot of these elements weren't played up to be so unrealistic, this could have been very introspective about past injustices. Sadly, nuance is dead in Hollywood.
