Denzel Washington’s FENCES Movie Rakes Whooping US$32,4mill In 10 Days
Denzel Washington’s FENCES Movie Rakes Whooping US$32,4mill In 10 Days. If you haven’t watched Fences, then you haven’t lived 2017 as yet… the budget of the movie was US$24million and it has already raked in $32,4 million since its release on the 25th of December last year.
The Plot
The movie stars Denzel Washington who is also director as Troy Maxson alongside Viola Davis who stars as his wife Rose. The plot is set out in Pittsburg in 1950 and Troy is arrogant and illiterate, he lives with his wife Rose and their son Cory (Jovan Adepo), and he (Troy) works as a waste collector alongside his best friend Jim Bono (Stephen McKinley Henderson). Troy’s older brother Gabe Maxson (Mykelti Williamson) sustained a head injury in World War II that left him mentally impaired, for which he received a $3 000 government payout which Troy used to purchase a home for his family. Gabe has since moved out but still lives in the neighbourhood where he is often tormented by local children.
In his adolescence, Troy left home and became a robber to sustain himself. After killing a man during a robbery, he is sent to prison where he meets Bono and tells him that he is a talented baseball player. He then played in the professional Negro league baseball but failed to achieve a career in Major League Baseball. Although it is likely that he was rejected due to his advanced age, Troy firmly believes that he was passed over due to the color of his skin. Having survived a near fatal bout of pneumonia in his youth, Troy claims to have done so by defeating the Grim Reaper in a fist fight, upon which the Reaper vowed to return for a rematch.
The plot is centered on the fence which Rose asks Troy to build around their house and Troy forcefully demands that Cory helps him out since he has been attending football practice. The fence is conceptualized by Troy to keep the Grim Reaper away, but is representative of the emotional barriers he built between himself and his sons and also evidence of Rose’s efforts to keep in those she holds dear. Troy eventually dies in the movie and has wronged each of his loved ones in his lifetime to his dying breath. The movie is a must see as Denzel and Viola combined are pure magic.
by Dalphine Tagwireyi
