Anonymous #2 2w

i’m sorry if i’m taking your joke too seriously, but i’ve seen people online legit call this a DEI thing and it’s making me feel ill

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Anonymous #4 2w

the movie bites off an awful lot and has a lot to chew, the main idea (particularly when it flips the genre film switch) is that there’s this everlasting pressure among black people to surrender their culture and personalities in order for approval from white people. the main vampire says throughout the back half of the film that he’s simply uniting black and white folk, but they’re hardly even the same people after they’ve been bitten. the reality-bending musical centerpiece is a tapestry

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Anonymous #2 2w

of the indisputable, everlastingly innovative nature of black (and chinese) music from ancient to modern times, and every scene of the movie following that sequence essentially hammers in more and more just how important that party, celebrating a certain literal and expressionist freedom, was for everyone who was at that party, down to sammie and stack saying at the end that up until the vampires came, how that was the best night of their lives.

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Anonymous #2 2w

Yeah I think I just didn’t get why it need to wait until half of the movie to get to the main plot — which I assume is the allegory of the vampires (which I also didn’t get why vampires, but also my sister and her bf made me watch it so I didn’t get to really research anything behind it and I probably will but beforehand would have maybe made me appreciate it more?) idk might just be me

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Anonymous #4 2w

i mean the plot is happening throughout the movie. like, yeah, it’s a lot of setup to get to the vampire stuff, but it’s a jim crow drama at the end of the day. i personally like that the movie takes its time to get to the action; all these characters interacting, exercising their of their gripes with one another and eventually just straight up bonding, and following that up with the conjuring spirits sequence…

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Anonymous #2 2w

i felt so connected to these characters at this point, only for it to cut to the vampires, reminding you that you’re about to watch a bunch of these people turn on each other and/or get killed. it’s certainly a messy movie, but i kinda like it that way. it makes for such an ambitious, creative overload.

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