late to this but finally got to watch this.
overall pretty great film.
there were maybe 1-2 scenes were the pace/ editing sort of threw me off, but that will probably go away after a repeat viewing for me.
the story, the characters, and everyone's acting were great - especially loved delroy lindo's delta slim! lot of good comedic moments with him
as well as some sad ones
loved, loved, loved the music in this and how it's the driving force behind the story.
and the message of how music heals a community.
you call tell coogler and his team researched the hell out of this era for the film - like when remmick starts speaking toisanese to grace.
other directors probably would've had him speak mandarin or cantonese, but toisanese was the dialect spoken by most chinese immigrants during this time period.
there were times where this reminded me of some of john carpenter's horror films.
this was also like an arthouse superior version of from dusk til dawn (first half being like a gangster film , then second half taking place in a bar + vampires) - but this movie actually had something to say about life + society.
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