Burnham transforms limitations into the limitless, mundane into existential, complexities into the simple truths. I've always felt comedians have an eye for the world unlike any other. They are the truest form of an artist that can synthesize the human existence into the most relatable, to bring that which rests in the background and jam it into your face and say "this, is what human is". Bo achieves this in spades in this magnum opus (at least to date).

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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly didn’t inspire my human spirit, it didn’t make me grieve or pity for Jean-Do; what it did was make me connect at a core level with a man in a different country, a different time, a different age, and a different occupation than I all together, and understand him viscerally at his core. The film did an impeccable job with the usage of Jean-Do’s internal narration and POV shots to make me feel I…

This film is a masterpiece – a term I use in the case that no other phrase could capture my sentiment. The depth of Jimmie and Montgomery as individuals and friends provides a perfect vehicle to experience the themes of defining one’s identity, optimism in the face of a cruel reality, humility, racial reality of modern America, erasing history through gentrification, and breaking out of a box so many find themselves trapped in.

I cried at the end of Montgomery’s…