"When people talk about the need for Black Excellence I counter with an insistence on Black mediocrity: the right for black people to be as average, flawed, compromised & mistaken as any other group of people. The right, ultimately, to be human." R.I.P. Jason Arday
THE INSIDER (1999). Total masterpiece. I found myself overwhelmed -- the moral depth of the story, the precision of the performances, the vibrancy & authenticity of what feels like life itself occurring in & around every frame. An elegy for the lost world of capable adults.
Her bum ass daddy gave her a medieval late term abortion that nearly killed her, poisoned her reproductive system, & gave her psychotic PTSD. Then proceeded to marry her off to a man as old as dirt that resulted in multiple dead babies until she got sickly Sweetrobin tha Tweaker