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Watched this last night and every damn thing you've heard about LOVERS ROCK on the timeline is true -- magnificent work from Steve and all of the many faces and essences seen here 
https://twitter.com/camerouninema/status/1306824078968397825
https://twitter.com/camerouninema/status/1306824078968397825
I probably should have begun with MANGROVE as intended but couldn’t help myself here — electric filmmaking as an evocation of place, spirit, culture, all of it. I’ve read this described as a time capsule but that’s inadequate. Time capsules are lifeless. This thing is VITAL.
Quick thought: By devoting seventy minutes to a single “story beat,” Steve has definitively expressed the necessity of SMALL AXE in this medium rather than that. I can’t wait to reach the end of its five parts to understand the full diasporic portrait Steve is weaving here.
Quick thought 2: I’m not a Brit and not West Indian BUT there is a spiritual current that pulses in rooms of the shape and color and SOUND depicted here that cuts through borders and brought me right back to the heart of so many memories of similarly melanin-filled rooms 
(and if you’ve been in those rooms it will do the same for you I have no doubt!)
If you haven't... you can still watch and enjoy, but... yeah
If you haven't... you can still watch and enjoy, but... yeah
Quick thought 3: By capturing the experience’s rituals as sensorial rather than editorialized depictions of those rituals’ importance, by instead trusting the sensorial truth of those rituals to express their importance, Steve has wholly manifested a memory so many folks share
(and done so in a way that allows those folks to take from said memory a private and shared feeling that remains theirs despite the public consumption of these images).
This... is KEY
This... is KEY
There. Is. So. Damn. Much. HERE
Last thought: I love Claire Denis’ US GO HOME. I love Reggie Hudlin’s HOUSE PARTY. If u had told me that 2020 would bring an electric pairing of the two rendered through Steve McQueen’s incomparable lens I… would not have believed u.
I also would NOT have been mad at that
I also would NOT have been mad at that
I ain’t mad at a damn thing about this miracle of a film. LOVERS ROCK hits Amazon Prime this Friday (Mangrove is on there RIGHT NOW), don’t miss it 
It... was very hard to not post links to songs in this thread.
VERY. But they should be experienced in the watching of the film, most def
VERY. But they should be experienced in the watching of the film, most def
