This article containsSinners spoilers.
But that was their party and their fleeting moment of escape.
Its an American tragedy.
Its a lot of feelings associated with our history.
We go there, showing these people in their full… humanity.
Cooglerrefers to the generation on the screen at the juke joint as his grandparents era.
That is demonstrable in the sequence where the guitar and voice of Miles Catons Sammie conjures ghosts.
The vampires just got there first.
Its as sickening as it is unsurprising, and it belies the real-world insidiousness of Remmicks offer of immortality.
He claims that he does not see race or religion among his flock.
Its no accident that Coogler captures the rolling fields of cotton in wide, painterly IMAX lenses.
Sammies father, a preacher at the nearby plantation, laments his sons secular, heathen music.
They would be caught in a cycle of debt and poverty that would become generational.
He was lynched before he reached a train out of town.
They never let him truly own his own music.
Certainly Elvis Presley got a lot richer singing Hound Dog than Big Mama Thornton.
Encourage future generations to go back to the plantation.
He doesnt really defeat the system, of course.
The American system is rigged, and the dream of his and Stacks juke joint could never be long-lasting.
But for a brief and beautiful moment, its real.
And in the here and now, that white old bastard is still worm meat.
And it can be savored by sinners and saints alike.
