Sinners (a movie) directed by Ryan Coogler


BulldogM.Ed.23

BulldogM.Ed.23

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Well, in the recent days, my social media feed has been blowing up with regards to this movie. Peeps I know are actually having group discussions because they say it's just that deep.

If I can find the time, I will go ahead and check it out this weekend.

Any thoughts, observations, from others?
 
BulldogM.Ed.23 said:
Well, in the recent days, my social media feed has been blowing up with regards to this movie. Peeps I know are actually having group discussions because they say it's just that deep.

If I can find the time, I will go ahead and check it out this weekend.

Any thoughts, observations, from others?
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I saw the movie on Saturday. Really good movie! The music scene at the juke joint will make you proud. I will not give the movie away but would like to see what everyone else gathered from the movie.
 



Okay, so I've gotten the chance to check it out.

Random Thoughts after 1st watch
  • Because I had already peeped lots of convo, initially I was trying to make it all make sense...
  • At some point I simply gave up and decided to just remain entertained...
  • If there was a major takeaway for me, it is indeed the power and influence of music...
  • So yes @buckwheat1911 the music part of it I really really really enjoyed...
  • It was so cool to see Buddy Guy and Kingfish playing along beside him at the end...
  • My major takeaway--> The setting, time period and story itself makes me think about the guitar blues legend Robert Johnson, the myths about him, and the stories about how in real life, he met the devil and sold to him his soul, making a deal to be a blues legend...
  • On the previous thought, it really feels like to me, Ryan Coogler simply made a modern day Robert Johnson story with some twists and turns in the plot...
  • I love many of the other actors and characters...LOL at how Wallace has come a long way from "The Wire"...
  • I think another watch could help me to make more connections to current times. Still I am not going to think too deeply. I will just remain entertained if I do rewatch it....
  • Overall, thumbs up for just something different than the norm to watch...
 
  • Ok, as I got up and prepared to meditate this morning, a clearer theme is coming to me. It is in regards to Foundational Black Americans.
  • Of course our contributions and legacy in this society and world are great and unparrelled. Yet in all that we do, it always happens. Others like vampires do what they can to suck the blood and life out of everything be it due to envy or for their own survival and personal gain. Sports, Music, Business, Labor, Inventions you name it....
  • Some of our worse cases happen when one of our own gatekeepers (particularly those in unique positions with titles) become victims and set us back by selling out.....
  • So what can FBA take from this movie? Teach, inspire, encourage, and empower one another as best as we can our contributions, legacies, and the crucial things with regards to our faith (especially the younger people), so we can live on and survive without letting the world drain or suck the life out of us..
  • Other wise, generations after us will experience cycle of curses and never realize the value and worth that we and our ancestors bring to this world....
 
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I saw it last night, here are my thoughts:

1. I appreciated the blending of spiritual beliefs from Yoruba, HooDoo to Christianity without offending either.
2. I was very entertained by the portrayal and blending of black musical genres, over centuries, in one scene, going back to mother Africa.
3. The twins portrayed loving kinship and the distinction of individuality just as Africans and African-Americans should do culturally, but don't.
4. Spiritually, I discerned the Apostle Paul's admonition about the existence of spiritual warfare within us. Even while doing good, evil is present.
5. Coogler's movie suggest evil forces only prevail by our invitation or our willingness to walk through their door, free will complicity.
 
bernard said:
View: https://youtu.be/4td-JFd7kyo?si=uOVH2WJNtEhJYRbl
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Interesting, I just signed back in to say I believe Coogler metaphorically opened up with the scene of a Native American posse chasing a white vampire/white devil. The metaphoric line is used when the leader of the posse warned the woman at the door the man was not what he seemed. That scene is grounded in the historicism of the red and black experience in the system of white supremacy.
 
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I saw it last night, here are my thoughts:

1. I appreciated the blending of spiritual beliefs from Yoruba, HooDoo to Christianity without offending either.
2. I was very entertained by the portrayal and blending of black musical genres, over centuries, in one scene, going back to mother Africa.
3. The twins portrayed loving kinship and the distinction of individuality just as Africans and African-Americans should do culturally, but don't.
4. Spiritually, I discerned the Apostle Paul's admonition about the existence of spiritual warfare within us. Even while doing good, evil is present.
5. Coogler's movie suggest evil forces only prevail by our invitation or our willingness to walk through their door, free will complicity.
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BAM on #5
 
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