An Index Of Selected Online Film* Writing

What’s the point of an adaptation of Erasure that foregoes the audacious skewering of those who profit from self-involved and pandering art cloaked in bullshit “authentic” black identity, and cynically tied to racial uplift? The skeptical part of my mind wonders if these dreamers of Sintara Golden’s dream (to bastardize Didion) simply set out to justify the hustle.

It’s a mistake to turn to the Q&A form for anything resembling truth, especially when the interrogated parties are known for storytelling proclivities. It’s a mistake to exalt “the truth” as objectively essential in a medium predicated on bending reality to evoke sensation

…they are scarecrows conjured to elicit laughs from the casually anti-rich spectator and not the anti-capitalist, who recognizes that the wickedness of the wealth gap cannot be reduced to matters of interpersonal disrespect…