Clooney's 'Suburbicon' tackles racism 'original sin'

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Breaking the brittle veneer of the picture-perfect suburbs of 1950s America, George Clooney's new satire tackles the racial prejudice which the actor and director said on Saturday continues to erupt in angry society today.

Based on an old script by acclaimed US filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, "Suburbicon" stars Matt Damon and Julianne Moore, and is set in a town of that name which is rudely awoken from the American dream by a series of surreal crimes and the residents' furious reaction to a black family's arrival in the neighborhood.

"This is a movie about our coming to terms with the idea that we have never addressed our issues with race fully," Clooney told a news conference after the premiere at the 74th annual Venice film festival.

"We've still got a lot of work to do, from our original sin of slavery and racism."

Julianne Moore and George Clooney attend the photocall of the movie "Suburbicon" at the 74th Venice Film Festival on September 2, 2017 at Venice Lido. /AFP Photo

Damon said last month’s violent clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia showed the issues addressed in the film “have not and will not go away until there is an honest reckoning in our country”.

Clooney said the film reflected deep anger in his home country, although he declared, “this isn’t a movie about Donald Trump.”

“People are angry, a lot of us are angry, angry at ourselves, angry at the way that the country is going, angry at the way the world is going,” he said.

“Suburbicon” is Clooney’s first turn in the director’s chair since 2014’s “The Monuments Men”, though he is perhaps best known for his decades-long acting career.

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Source(s): Reuters ,Xinhua News Agency