‘Sinners’ and the Price of Artistic Freedom
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Onscreen and behind the scenes, the movie is about the pursuit of liberation, not just for its characters, but also for filmmaking itself.
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The blues are central to that sense of freedom. That Coogler chose to base his emancipatory tale on the sound is not happenstance but an extension of a longer African American literary tradition. The author Ralph Ellison once wrote that the blues were “an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one’s aching consciousness, to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend.” Works by him and many others, including Zora Neale Hurston
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