Nominating this rubbish for the Oscars is offensive not only to the main actor nominated, who embodies the worst stereotypes of the frustrated bourgeois African American, but to every african american. Here we are in the midst of a bittersweet comedy that never decides whether to be comedy or drama. Even if the rather than dramatic moments are squalidly embarrassing, as is the whole staging, which moves clumsily and superficially, up to totally ridiculous and out of place moments of metacinema. Awkward and boring are the two adjectives that best suit this filth, which trivializes racial issues by leveraging pathetic existential dramas. This is not american fiction but american rubbish at it's criminally worst.