I finally watched Sinners… now i understand

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• CZ

  @Czaccboi · 7 months ago

  My favorite scene in the movie isn't the part where Sammie is singing and then the nice set piece of the influence of black music, but the much smaller scene where Delta Slim is recounting that story about his friend who was murdered and then starts humming when the emotion gets too much. I feel like it is such a nuanced performance on art as a response to pain, and doubly so for black art.

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• MI

  @MichellaneousMe · 7 months ago

  The twins owning the juke joint was such a sad concept for me because it was going to fail no matter what. If the vampires didn't come, the KKK would've. If they managed to survive both those altercations, the Italian/Irish mafia were going to come and get them due to the money they used to open the joint and the wine/beer they were selling. Even if the Vampires, KKK, and the Mafia didn't bother them, the juke joint was going to go under in a couple of months anyways because there wasn't enough money coming in to sustain it. I feel for the twins man...

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• DE

  @Dez.j.w · 7 months ago

  When Annie says “Put that cigarette out and you can hold her. I don’t want you getting that Smoke on her”, allowing Elijah to strip himself of the Smoke persona and finally be with his family 😮‍💨😭🤧

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• JE

  @jessie-laura · 7 months ago

  My favorite part of this video is when you call Hogwood a big back and a tub of mayo. 😂

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• KI

  @Kiki-bo9en · 7 months ago

  In Grace's defense, if I had a husband that looked like Bo, I'd lose my damn mind trying to get him back too.

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• BU

  @BuggyDMono · 7 months ago

  People who say Sinners is overhyped need to reevaluate their opinions.

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• LA

  @Larper64 · 7 months ago

  I think there is also a subtle tragedy to Remmick. He is hinted at being a first contact victim of colonization, and seems to be driven by a desire for the community that was taken from him. Unfortunately for him, his community is long gone, and as he tries to force others to join him, he ends up using the same appropriative and blanketive tactics used on his people. I mean he is a monster in many ways, but there is a tragedy there. I think that is part of why the Fili are brought up in reference to the Griot. He may have been a Fili  and has lost his stories and songs over the centuries, or if he was not one, he craves the sound and power of what he once experienced, that has been loat for so long. It is likely why he had previously targeted the Choctaw when he first appeared, he was trying to gain the accompaniment of a Firekeeper, but failed to do so.

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• OL

  @ollieno971 · 7 months ago

  People hate Grace too much. Her child was threatened. I saw a comment from a video on Sinners that put it in an even better perspective for me, it was a comment from a Chinese woman that said how much Grace emotionally impacted her. How she grew up with the one child law where daughters were regularly thrown aside or aborted because they were seen as so much less than. She said to see a Chinese mother literally burn her entire world down just to protect her daughter was very emotionally impactful on her and I thought that was so beautiful.

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• KI

  @kikigarba555 · 7 months ago

  I can’t lie Zane you’re wearing that preacher boy fit down

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• MO

  @mochixxmellow · 7 months ago

  I know a lot of people hate Grace but understand not only does he threaten her child but when he speaks to her in Chinese it's a specific dialect from the area she and Bo are from. The actress helped Coogler with those lines. Now imagine how terrifying that had to me for her knowing at any point Bo could go home and easily get access to their kid.

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• LE

  @LeslieAM32 · 6 months ago

  The saddest thing about this movie for me, is that they did so many things, went through so much, survived so much, worked so hard, even killed... And still their dream couldn't even last one night before it was destroyed.

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• LI

  @lightworthy · 7 months ago (edited)

  something i really love about this movie as a white person is that it shows how easily certain types of people can go from oppressed TO oppressor within even a generation or two. Remmick is that concept exactly. my grandma’s grandma was the one to immigrate here from Ireland during the time they weren’t considered white &amp; were oppressed in america. yet ive absolutely had to correct my grandma on racist and oppressive views many times. same with my grandpa who was a first generation from mexico. hell, his first language was spanish &amp; he only doesn’t speak it now because he purposefully forgot it due to oppression he was facing. when bad bunny was performing, still, my mom had to call him out on his racist comments towards a man speaking spanish and showing pride in his culture. two different versions of that exact concept. my grandma benefits societally from being white &amp; the irish accent being gone, my grandpa benefits from assimilating to the point of losing his culture, and BOTH turned around and turned that same oppression onto others once it was off of them. <br><br>Grace &amp; Bo serve an especially interesting spot to me, showing how someone can both profit off of racism AND experience it, and perpetuate it (loosely in the story). they have the two stores, they aren’t a focus of the black specific racism of the time, they’re very soon about to get it a lot worse not too far from this time, AND i think it’s not a coincidence the character who can “float between” both white and black spaces is the one who brings the vampires in, specifically harming the black population. she had a power over them and she used it to get what she wanted, to help HER, even if it killed them all. it’s not hard to see how that can relay to other races can SPECIFICALLY use anti-black racism to prop themselves up higher on “the ladder”<br><br>from every race this movie has a very clear message, and it’s what i love about it. they’re all sympathetic, they’re almost all wrong for what they do in some way. it’s a gorgeous movie that speaks on the history AND current times of race without alienating any one of them truly while still keeping the focus on who’s been harmed the most &amp; not pulling punches of that truth

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