This is one of the best of the year, I thought. I can put down more later, but brilliant, raw, beautiful, emotional film making, at it's finest. The final shots are gorgeous, haunting, painful. It's really a stunning movie, and I choked up in one scene, at least, right when another character did. The kind of contemplative movie that takes you outside yourself, and into the movie, almost entirely. The acting is so perfect, Jimmies Dad? That was an amazing performance. There was so much anger, regret, bitterness in the way his Dad spat those words out.
The ones on the corner? Probably not actors. But, the way "talking shyt" goes from funny to sad, to scary, to remorseful, was really deep, to me. The way sensitive, thoughtful, reflective (kids) men are brutalized by a world that doesn't turn on love and kindness, the different kinds of white people that inhabit, conspire, and infuriate the now gentrified Fillmore. A really impressive debut, the kind of movie that only comes out once a year or so, and increasingly, from the Bay Area, with last years Blindspotting and Sorry to Bother You, being very similar in theme, and impact.
The ones on the corner? Probably not actors. But, the way "talking shyt" goes from funny to sad, to scary, to remorseful, was really deep, to me. The way sensitive, thoughtful, reflective (kids) men are brutalized by a world that doesn't turn on love and kindness, the different kinds of white people that inhabit, conspire, and infuriate the now gentrified Fillmore. A really impressive debut, the kind of movie that only comes out once a year or so, and increasingly, from the Bay Area, with last years Blindspotting and Sorry to Bother You, being very similar in theme, and impact.
Your friend is a fakkit.
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