A conceptual film that explores toxic black masculinity and mental health, exploring the culturally-conditioned and inherited fear of vulnerability, represented through an encounter with a "jumbie", Caribbean folklore entity.
I hope that more people will see Joyland, understand the situation, and eventually change themselves and society so we can have a more accommodating world where everyday tragedies like the one depicted in the film do not occur.
There’s been a longstanding criticism of sci-fi films about its lack of Black characters. For the past few years, Anthony Mackie has been successfully representing Black masculinity in the otherwise homogenous genre and I am here for it.
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film "Pyscho" is an American film classic that still resonates today.
Our protagonists perform as the opposite gender while still preserving the parts of their personalities that makes themselves who they are.
