This type of storytelling peaks when it feels like a fully formed story that just happens to hold elements that that speak to our world. But when done this way, it feels like a college essay.
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
The very real toll this existence takes on the characters in the film are the play within the play. The staging of August Wilson’s words are ostensibly about a legendary blues singer, but in reality, they are about everything Black people do to stay sane in an insane world.
We Should Be Listening - If Beale Street Could Talk
Following up Best Picture winner Moonlight seemed like an unenviable task. Moonlight was utterly mesmerizing and had big things to say. If Beale Street Could Talk is equally mesmerizing and somehow has even bigger things to say.