This movie resonates with me on a deeper level than anyone I know
I know it’s been a while since the movie released. I’ve heard all of the discussions some who love it and some who don’t love it. But this film is something different for me entirely to the point where I feel like it was made for me. I am a young black musician, my passions in life are music and film and they blend so beautifully together in this movie. I am a pan Africanist I love learning and celebrating my Afro Caribbean culture as well as the culture of the diaspora as a whole. So this movie blew me away. I also am an atheist that deconstructed from my Christian upbringing. So those themes of religion and forced conversion hit deeply with me. This film speaks to me in so many ways and I wonder if it’s the same for anyone else.