Boys/Life (1989)

How powerful can a story be when it is stripped to the bare essentials of just a room, a handful of people and raw human voice?

'Ganja & Hess' is a 1973 experimental horror film, written and directed by the visionary auteur Bill Gunn. It was meant to be a straightforward blaxploitation film – but director Gunn had grander ambitions.

Portraying how easy it is to be an ally heavily benefits the majority audience. The more we encourage it, normalize it, and give people the tools to become one, the sooner we can co-exist peacefully.

The quiet ache of guilt sitting at the dinner table, the silence after a truth is buried, and the way pain is passed down like a name.

The film does not add anything to its own conversation or genre, and falls flat once it’s about to end and must declare some sort of conclusion.