Field Niggas

Has a family resemblance to Costa's immediate cinema. Brings you literally face to face with the ones from whom you would always turn your face away, and lets you see the the human concerns they have, their desires, their daily resistance. Certainly an intervention into senses, as Rancière puts it. But. I would still prefer my poor less fetishized and more dramatized. There is something that looks disrespectful of the intimacy of the homeless with Allah's super close ups. Still a strong movie.

like the Dark Days of the 2010s. more politicized, and even more human. the absence of the air of production and of aesthetic polish means you get closer to the portrait of a time and place and people. Allah has gotten closest to a portrait that we don't readily acknowledge, but know exists. this access would mean very little if he wasn't able to collage it together in such a poetic, meaningful way.

Visually absorbing, surprisingly interesting. America is in bad shape.

Khalik you're the man!