Whether it's the awkward silence or the constant need to keep rambling on, no-one does a perfect first date. Actually, the only thing that could make a first date worse, is if your ex's showed up - right?
“Candyman ain't a 'he.’ Candyman is the whole damn hive." Candyman represents all Black victims of white supremacy, and this art form narratively conveys it in a succinct, adulatory way, the history of which is rare to find.
“And I think to myself….what a wonderful world”. Louis Armstrong sang about this notion via his classic 1967 song, an ode to witnessing elements of our life that should be but some reminders of exactly what that concluding line of each verse indicates. Now we see our contemporary realities and, just being honest, it makes a sentiment like this seem SO overtly far away….perhaps even impossible….to accept or believe could be. It sounds harsh, but again, so much of what is occurring speaks not to beauty, but bedlam.
Taylor Swift details her successful music career in country and pop genres in this featured documentary film Miss Americana.
The repeated actions, the blood on the petals, the rustling under the floor…An ambient short horror film takes us into another realm.
Praising Black representation and condemning the power structures that suppress it, a mother delivers an impassioned speech to her distant son.
Dead Poets Society relies on patriarchal tropes such as overbearing fathers, contrived brotherhood, and faux-individuality in order to portray its straight white male characters as oppressed.
