
I Am Not Your Negro
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Documentary
2017
93 min
R
Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.
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"⭐️👏🏼⭐️👏🏼⭐️👏🏼⭐️👏🏼⭐️
All I can say is this is one the best documentaries ever made and everyone needs to see it.
Filmmaker Raoul Peck’s breathtaking artfulness amid hard truths and devastating visual juxtapositions; the understated emotional gravitas and softly smoky resonance of Samuel L. Jackson’s narration; and most of all James Baldwin’s own charismatic oratory and eloquently searing words. I was constantly compelled to hit the back button in order to soak in the profundity of his statements as well as his incredibly powerful phrasing.
This film ultimately is about holding up a mirror to humanity. Baldwin is masterful in revealing ignorance, hypocrisy and the most inconceivable cruelty possible of a society that has continually turned a blind eye to its own horrific history.
“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it has been faced. History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history. If we pretend otherwise, we literally are criminals.”
~ James Baldwin "
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