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Ah these children who always create problems for poor mothers....

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Best Cinematography: Sinners (2025) — cinematography by Autumn Durald Arkapaw

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I love seasonal fruits they're like girl we're back lol

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Music in Film: Sinners (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

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Something something vampires have no reflection so he can't even try to see his brother's face anymore when he looks into the mirror

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Sinners (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

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going wild thinking about the use of Rocky Road to Dublin in Sinners. It’s a really tight microcosm of a lot of the film’s themes just by itself. Credentials: I’m a retired Irish dancer, I went to worlds and the whole bit. My family is appalachian and I grew up on bluegrass

It’s played on a banjo, an instrument with origins in West Africa formally invented in the US by enslaved people (and then popularized in Irish music through Irish American immigrants, largely in the South and Appalachia). Even the instrument telegraphs an attempt at cultural exchange morphing into theft and exploitation, especially because the history of the banjo has been purposefully obscured by white people

It’s got a strong down beat, making it the musical opposite of the swung blues sound (emphasis on 1/3 as opposed to 2/4). The scene is clearly meant to evoke klan imagery, and giving it this marching feel ABSOLUTELY contributes

It’s in 9/8 meter (with some mixed—it’s a uniquely weird song), making it, traditionally, a slip jig. Historically, this is a light shoe dance for women only (he’s dancing hard shoe in the movie) meaning that Remmick’s attempt to reclaim his own culture has been botched, obscured, and lost as he’s been alienated from it and co-opted into the symbolic hive of American whiteness/cultural orphanage/cultural patricide.

The song itself is about a guy cutting a shillelagh (a walking stick/club with a folkloric purpose of warding off evil spirits) to protect himself on his journey to Dublin, but winding up using it against a few Englishmen mocking him for his Irish accent. It’s a parallel to exactly what Remmick was not able to do—protect himself from monsters, and protect himself from colonization. It also highlights that this number is being used to threaten violence against the leads

It’s such a clever combination of inverting swing/jazz sounds and showing ways Remmick is missing the point. Since he sold his soul for power, comfort, and conformity, he’s only able to access a shadow of his culture, while misunderstanding and misrepresenting major pieces of his own traditions. Even his attempts to culturally “share” through the banjo is plowed over by his use of it and Black bodies and voices for his own individual pleasure and as a threat of further violence. It’s such a smart pick

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SINNERS 2025, dir. Ryan Coogler

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"There are legends of people born with the gift of making music so true, it can pierce the veil between life and death. Conjuring spirits from the past and the future." SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

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If your life is horrible and you need a new source of meaning and direction.... Do NOT find religion. Learn to identify plants.

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where is transgender flag "I'M TOO FAT FOR THIS HEAT"

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The real message of the movie

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Following up a career and era-defining fantasy franchise leading role with a steadfast commitment to playing weird little freaks.

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concept: nudes that capture evidence of paranormal phenomenon in the background by accident

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The Blues scene with all the generations of music being summoned at once and everyone dancing in a trance and the Irish river dance scene with the haunting music and the hypnotising dance and the other Blues scene where the singer's belting and the dancers feet smacking the ground coordinated perfectly with the violence in the other room were literal masterpieces like these three scenes deserve an Oscar in Directing Cinematography and Music they were incredible

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Hilarious 😂😂😂😂