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Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches (2022)
Utterly riveting...
It is hard for me to believe that a man this powerful and significant to American history is not a household name. He led the abolitionist movement, much like Harriet Tubman led the underground railroad, and Martin Luther King led the civil rights movement. Born a slave in 1818, there was no template for a Black man in America being treated as a human being. He created it! He not only insisted upon his humanity as a slave who could be killed for looking a white person in the face, but he basically became a king gracing the cover of our equivalent to Time magazine while most Black people were still slaves! The man was a monument of accomplishment and pride. Omg please watch this documentary and give it 10 stars. The bizarrely low rating is clearly a result of the racism and anger towards Black excellence and the telling of stories of our greatness.
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
Tragic this was seen by most on the small screen...
The bad reviews are heartbreaking because the message of this film was a powerful one, lost in the awkwardness of taking such a visual film in on a small screen. I was lucky enough to see it at the theater (NJ has theatres open). Yes, there was some corny business in the beginning at the mall and with Chris Pine trying on outfits. And Linda Carter's cameo was highly anticlimactic. But in the theater it was not as offputting as it might be sitting at home not having experienced the wonder of that opening scene and the visual breath of it all! The flying scenes were incredible in the theater! But I can see how they might have looked silly on a 42". Anyway, the message was Ego death and service to the Collective over service to self. Such a beautiful and timely message for this difficult time we are in. I'm sad about the reviews, but I hope it will get re-released once covid has cleared. Any movie with a crystal as a leading character has got game! #TheDarkCrystal.