![]() As a result, noir has a prickly relationship to race. Its protagonists are often deeply flawed and morally cynical and butt against the power structures and people (police, politicians, the wealthy) our culture has tried to condition us into believing are good. Its characters are usually archetypal - detectives, femmes fatales, criminals, people on the fringes of society. Thematically, it delves into concepts like existentialism, free will, fear of the “other,” obsessions with the past and dread for the future. For my first piece for Vulture back in 2015, I outlined the attributes of this tricksy genre, born out of the changing gender and racial landscape of America during and after World War II, under the Expressionist influence of European-refugee filmmakers like Billy Wilder: It’s stylistically marked by voice-over, high-contrast lighting, nonlinear storytelling, and poetic, rhythmic dialogue. Late at night, I have also found myself turning to the slippery pleasures of film noir - a genre that’s always been good at laying bare lies at the heart of the American dream. But it feels imperative to bear witness, to confront the horrors and hopes of the present moment instead of drowning myself in nostalgia for a normalcy that never was. We can’t endlessly observe horror and apathy and expect to survive. ![]() That’s necessary, too we all need some balm. It would be all too easy to turn away from this moment, to curl inward, to lose myself in objects of sprightly glamour and joy. These videos are marked by urgency, functioning as weapons and wounds, illuminations of the power structures that bind our lives. I’ve been seeing real moments of joy followed by images of bloodied marchers in the aftermath of police brutality. ![]() ![]() I have found myself late at night scrolling through my various timelines, watching on-the-ground filmmaking from citizens documenting both the swell of protests across the country sparked by the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and so many others by police officers (to use any other language is to obfuscate the matter at hand) and the police violence with which those protests are being met. I am not quite sure how to thread together the immense anger and sadness and loneliness that defines the present moment not just for myself but for legions of people across the country now mired in two pandemics rewriting the rules of American livelihood: COVID-19 and anti-black racism. Head to Vulture’s Twitter to catch her live commentary, and look ahead at next week’s movie here. This week’s selection comes from staff writer Angelica Jade Bastién, who will begin her screening of Deep Cover on June 5 at 7 p.m. Photo: New Line CinemaĮvery week for the foreseeable future, Vulture will be selecting one film to watch as part of our Friday Night Movie Club. OL17472694W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 92.81 Pages 294 Pdf_module_version 0.0.22 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20230622190543 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 540 Scandate 20230617114832 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780373674800 Tts_version 5.Laurence Fishburne in Bill Duke’s Deep Cover. Urn:lcp:deepcover0000unse_z1e3:lcpdf:4b9b65d3-5daa-401c-9601-0599607574bb Foldoutcount 0 Identifier deepcover0000unse_z1e3 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2db9w6nt2t Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780373674800 Metasource_catalog openlibrary Ocr tesseract 5.3.0-3-g9920 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.21 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA409880 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:58:04 Autocrop_version 0.0.15_books-20220331-0.2 Boxid IA40997123 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |