The Last Black Man In San Francisco is on Amazon Prime. One of my favorite films of the year, if not the favorite. Please please watch it.
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK
I found the movie to be a weak argument against gentrification made by white dudes not willing to fully critique the larger systemic reasons why it happens. Also they take a very white liberal approach by also trying to paint some of his issues as individualistic which is wrong
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Replying to @BDraggon
I'm not going to even try to disagree, I just found it to be a moving portrait of Jimmie Fails trying to tell his own autobiographical story and the exploration of his feelings in that circumstance. I don't think it's necessarily trying to be a sociological treatise.
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK
I mean that’s an adequate viewpoint. My larger issue is with the way it’s being thrown into representation politics conversations as new territory poor black cinema when it’s the same old white dudes making a story about a black persons struggle
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Replying to @BDraggon
100% agree with the concern, I guess I'm curious how the autobiographical nature of the film/creative team affects that? Talbot+Fails are childhood best friends who have been trying to make this movie forever. Does it matter it? Should it even? How do we regard Fails' authorship?
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK
Yeah those questions are why I’m iffy on lumping in the film with the usual fare because it’s origins are a bit different but it’s still being received the same way as the others which is why people are regarding it as such.
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Replying to @BDraggon @FilmCritHULK
I don’t think there was any malice/exploitation on the part of the filmmakers but regardless it still fits into the same Hollywood practices whether they intended to or not
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK @BDraggon
Hey look, it’s the conversation I was trying to have!
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