Sinners

from the series Movie Corner…

5/5 Stars

Comedy/Dark Comedy

By HOWARD MCQUITTER II

All throughout, a profound maestro of blues with a quick glimpse of future Black music, rings strong from beginning to end. At the opening scene of director Ryan Coogler’s brilliant film (if not an outright masterwork) a young man, Sammie, drives up to a plain looking church, gets out and enters the place where the pastor, his father), is giving a Sunday sermon. When he approaches the pulpit where his father greets him, the camera zeros in on a snapped-off guitar neck in his right hand. Sammie’s face is bloodied and slashed as if he’s been in a brawl. That scene alone embodies a series of metaphors and allegories that will stare audiences in the face. His father requests Sammie to drop the guitar because “If you keep dancing with the Devil, one day he will follow you home.”

In a small town near Clarksdale, Mississippi, in 1932, at the height of the Depression, identical twin brothers Stack and Smoke come back to their hometown from Chicago where they may have hooked up with Al Capone. Both men fought in the First World War before they galloped off to Chicago.… Read the rest “Sinners”