"Widows" (2018)

I'm not sure what you expect of this film about women turning to heisting money from their dead husband's debt to gangsters, but...somehow it navigated the mess it potentially could be, and silences a lot of questions of logic because it is...a traditional tough guy flick with girls instead of guys. Leading the pack is Viola Davis, whose Droopy eyed exhausted Black woman schtick isn't taken to comedic moments, but real ones. Hard ones. Ones where you genuinely feel the deep cut this movie makes on women who have lost everything. MANY Conservatives may not feel the empathy for a woman whose entire lifestyle was predicated on a criminal husband. Nor would they feel a twinge of sympathy when true tragedy strikes her. But none of it has to do with a moral high ground. Life in urban Chicago is what it is, and in the end...life moves on at a snails pace where nothing really changes.
I think this was more of an indictment on the Leftist stronghold in that area. Run by the disenfranchised Blacks who, on one side, just want to own a piece of land, on the other have to do terrible things to get there (less you forget Joseph Kennedy was a bootlegger). This isn't the lesson. This is purely about women who have no other options. They aren't all good. Nor are they all bad. They are trying to move on with their lifestyle, but going about it the wrong way.
Okay, so now, if you've read this far, I'm sure this doesn't sound like anything you would want to watch. But I think many people should. It isn't pointing the finger at any person. But rather showing you how tough city women live. Widows are tough women. They survived their spouse's death and need to push forward. They justify their past lives. They...are sometimes betrayed by their own past.
But this is also a fascinating 70's style tough person movie. It ISN'T a heist film. That takes place only for about 10 minutes. It is a female bonding film, that could have been.
I'm purposely being vague so you go see it.
Enjoyed the film written by Gillian Flynn and Steve McQueen. And Directed by Steve McQueen.
I think it deserves a few Oscar nods.