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And follow, of course, he does. Or, rather, they do: No sooner do the twins and their coterie of friends begin the festivities than a knock comes on the club’s door. Outside are Remmick, Burt, and Joan, three very lovely white folks with big, ingratiating smiles. They’re not segregationists like those other bigoted boobs in town, they tell the suspicious twins as they plea for an invitation to join the party; they believe in equality, and music. To prove it, they pull out their banjos and sing a wholesome tune, looking and sounding beatific in the pale moonlight.

The charming white folk are entirely sincere in their good intentions and in their frequent evocations of peace, love, and kindness. Also, they’re vampires.

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The Black family wasn’t decimated by the Hogwoods of this world, rank racists determined to preserve their systems of oppression. It was annihilated by rejecting Frederick Douglass’ wise counsel and replacing pride, particularism, and the joys of tribal loyalties with the gauzy promise of universal, cosmopolitan liberalism and its miracle cures, which have turned out to be poison.

This turned out to be a really interesting and thoughtful movie review. I wouldn't have given this movie a second thought, but now I'll likely give it a watch sometime.

1 posted on 05/04/2025 1:48:18 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: EnderWiggin1970

A screen name of Ender Wiggin, and Sinners wasn’t on your must see list for Petra?


2 posted on 05/04/2025 2:03:02 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: EnderWiggin1970

I’m thinking I’ll wait on CinemaSins to review.


4 posted on 05/04/2025 2:34:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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