Wesley Morris

But, you know, being in some part of Los Angeles on a somewhat regular basis, you're just kind of like, this is a tragedy.

There's like tragedy happening everywhere for no reason other than greed, selfishness, blindness.

Like what, how, what is that connected to?

So this man is thinking systemically.

These systemic problems have been with us for a long time.

And...

I have never faulted his films for not paying attention to the present.

Although I always get a little nervous when movies want to spend all their time in the past, because it means you were scared of what's happening now.

This is a movie that is not afraid.

And to the, to the, with respect to like the, like the really important, fascinating, like persuasive conversations happening around the, the, the many, many black women in this movie are,

I think that it is trying to start something and acknowledge that something is happening without necessarily caring about getting anything right, if that makes sense.

I think it really wants to capture an energy.

And if some characters wind up less developed than others...

It's a side effect of the attempt to capture this energy.

But I don't think this movie is disrespectful.

I mean, we can talk about...

like what like how people feel about the depiction of black women in it but like i don't think it's being i don't think it's being done in bad faith but i also think it's like it is fun and useful and illuminating to think about this movie as a both a work of racial politics and racial movie politics

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