MUDBOUND - Flawless Film of Racial Hatred in 1930'40s of Shameful Past Where We're Still Stuck

The historic fictional film MUDBOUND based on the novel by Hillary Jordan is a brutal depiction of loathsome racial bigotry and the horrors of war.  The movie is set in rural MS in the late 1930s-post WWII and hones in on a black family, the Jacksons and a white family, the McAllans.   The Jacksons are dirt poor tenant farmers working the mud soaked land owned by the McAllans.  The eldest Jackson son, Ransel (Jason Mitchell) and the younger McAllan brother Jamie (Garrett Hedlund) both fought valiantly in WWII.  They return home changed men but to a hateful segregated Jim Crow south that has remained entrenched in the fabric of Southern life.  Ransel's division was segregated in the barracks, tanks, latrines and even their blood supplies are kept separate.  Of course he is resentful  by the fascist regime still in tact that he & other black soldiers fought against & died for abroad.  Jamie returns to his brother's farm suffering from PTSD.  Jamie's Pappy (Johnathan Banks "Breaking Bad") & brother are racist brutes.  Jamie finds solace in drink & in the camaraderie of fellow veteran Ransel.  Their friendship which must remain covert to avoid violent repercussions is a doomed mission.  Pappy & his cowardly KKK pals find evidence of Ransel's relationship with a white woman which they use to justify the torture & lynching of Ransel.  Jamie's forced to witness though he fights to save Ransel from being murdered by his father & hooded cronies.  The film is remarkably powerful, emotional & convincing.  The cinematography captures the rain drenched, murky terrain.  The actors are all phenomenal.  Laura McAllan (Carrie Mulligan) is married to the loutish older brother and burdened with hardships.  Her bleak circumstances cloud her sensibilities to the sufferings of Mrs. Jackson (an incredible performance by Mary J. Blige) permitting her to subjugate her to servitude.  The emotional core & historic atrocities from this oppressive, systematic persecution rested on the heartfelt performances by Ransel & his parents.  The film directed by Dee Rees deserves numerous honors.  There are other outstanding films that represent a genre of black oppression; a most shameful category.  MUDBOUND resonates the anguish & suffering systemically inflicted on African Americans during this epoch.  What's most glaring is noting current events that show lynchings still occurring.  These may appear differently than the lynchings of the past but perpetrated, senseless & unjustified killings of African Americans still persist today, the majority of which are exonerated.  I praise MUDBOUND for its clear & poignant storytelling that should move the wheels of justice to advance us to a society free of racism & inequality.