A former sports hero has been handicapped following a car accident. He is still struggling to accept his situation one year later, where he needs daily help from home carers. What he does not know, however, is that the new home nurse has a dark secret.
SPOILERS AHEAD. Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song distinguished itself from Hollywood films of its time by introducing New Wave cinema storytelling methods into Black cinema.
One of the reasons that people with albinism have a difficult time being seen and represented in media is probably because there is a small percentage of them.
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?
In the film adaptation, director Jon M. Chu turns each musical number into a massive show stopper, with grand set pieces and a wealth of diverse dancers. Yet, in this attempt to show reverence for the people of the Washington Heights barrio, Chu, or maybe more specifically those in charge of casting, left out a crucial part of the community, Afro-Latinos.
A sweet slice-of-life anime that visualizes all the ways we creatively hide our vulnerabilities from the world.
