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1. www.nytimes.com › 2021/05/13 › artsReview: ‘The Underground Railroad’ Weaves an Epic Vision

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   May 13, 2021 · NYT Critic’s Pick. In Barry Jenkins’s transfixing adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad,” Martin (Damon Herriman), a white man smuggling Cora (Thuso Mbedu) as she escapes...

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     Colson Whitehead’s new novel explores with brute realism and...

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2. www.nytimes.com › 2016/08/03 › booksReview: ‘Underground Railroad’ Lays ... - The New York Times

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   Aug 2, 2016 · Colson Whitehead’s new novel explores with brute realism and fablelike allegory a network of black and white activists who helped slaves escape to freedom.

   • Author: Michiko Kakutani

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4. www.nytimes.com › 2021/05/06 › artsThe Epic Journey to ‘The Underground Railroad’ - The New York ...

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   May 6, 2021 · “The Underground Railroad” is in part an attempt to contextualize modern racial strife with a vivid new origin story.

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5. www.rogerebert.com › reviews › the-undergroundThe Underground Railroad movie review (2021) | Roger Ebert

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   May 14, 2021 · A vicious slave catcher named Ridgeway (Joel Edgerton) tracks her, but “The Underground Railroad” is more than a mere chase story. The overall arc of Cora’s narrative ebbs and flows through viciously realistic violence and into more dreamlike fantasies and back again.

6. www.rogerebert.com › interviews › its-physical-workIt's Physical Work: Barry Jenkins on The Underground Railroad

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   Jun 18, 2024 · Told elegantly, with unfettered truthfulness, “The Underground Railroad” takes great care to tell the story of Cora (Thuso Mbedu)—an enslaved woman seemingly abandoned long ago by her mother, Mabel (Sheila Atim), who decides to flee with her lover Caesar (Aaron Pierre) away from their plantation toward freedom.

7. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2021/05/24The Achievement of Barry Jenkins’s “The Underground Railroad”

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   May 14, 2021 · With “The Underground Railroad,” a compositional achievement—pictorial and psychological—Jenkins has done for the antebellum South what J. M. W. Turner did for the sea.

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   Is the Underground Railroad based on a true story?

   • The real underground railroad, the historical 19th-Century network of people and safe houses that helped slaves escape, becomes a literal, physical trainline carrying people to safety in Colson Whitehead's novel, on which the show is based.

   The Underground Railroad review: A remarkable American epic - BBC

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   Who filmed 'the Underground Railroad'?

   • Atsushi Nishijima/Amazon Studios How Barry Jenkins and his band of indie filmmakers made television’s most ambitious take on American slavery since “Roots.” Barry Jenkins and Thuso Mbedu on the set of “The Underground Railroad,” which took an emotional toll on the cast and crew.

   The Epic Journey to ‘The Underground Railroad’

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   What is 'the Underground Railroad' about?

   • “The Underground Railroad” is telling a story of people whose lives largely went unwitnessed and unrecorded, for a time when seemingly everything is captured and broadcast, when people have become exposed nerves taking in images of anguish and outrage. We spend our days looking and looking.

   Review: ‘The Underground Railroad’ Weaves an Epic Vision

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   Who is Martin in 'the Underground Railroad' based on?

   • In Barry Jenkins’s transfixing adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad,” Martin (Damon Herriman), a white man smuggling Cora (Thuso Mbedu) as she escapes slavery, rouses her before dawn to witness something ghastly. Along the road they’re traveling, grimly called “The Freedom Trail,” the trees are hung with lynched corpses.

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   Is there a prologue in Underground Railroad?

   • In “Underground Railroad,” there’s a kind of prologue that recounts the story of Cora’s grandmother Ajarry, who was kidnapped in Africa, sold into slavery and repeatedly swapped and resold in America; and Cora’s story is intercut with interludes featuring portraits of other characters, like Ridgeway and Caesar.

   Review: ‘Underground Railroad’ Lays Bare Horrors of Slavery and Its

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   Is the Underground Railroad a metaphor?

   • As in several recent stories — the movie “Harriet,” the series “Underground” — an abolitionist network abets Cora and Caesar’s escape. But in a magic-realist twist, this underground railroad is no metaphor. It’s a rough-hewed network that honeycombs the country, its stations ranging from grotty caverns to palatial terminals.

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