people—read BLUES PEOPLE by Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones instead!!!!

bombastic, vampy, cutely funny…. for SURE

i can’t help but see this movie as very much in conversation with the dependence on black masculinity as a device of liberation that spike lee’s Malcolm X betrays as well. this is a man’s story—to be so obvious and annoying (and i told vanessa and andres id only harp on this thread once), every woman there was acting in service of bringing Michaels B and…

struggling to still articulate why this didn’t land as much for me. doesn’t really feel like a revolutionary story as much as a comedy taking place within the mechanics of a revolution…..but not in the dark-comedy-absurd-reality way.

i don’t know man, i found prefidia’s entire characterization grating—Not because it was an unflinching/realistic look at a person born into survival mode (allowed and celebrated direction to take things), but maybe because it was a footnote? prologue? so there was only the…