An instinctual and transcendent subconscious repository of light, sound, touch, smell, sight, trauma, grief, pain, flesh, color, citrus, and wisdom beamed directly into your eyeballs. A film that does not just tell a story but imprints itself into the nervous system, burns into the tissue, leaves something behind that was not there before.
As someone who read the book before viewing, as a Florida native, as a devoted student of history—most specifically Black history in the Americas—this is the film…
