I cried like 3 times more thoughts when I get home.

I'm so glad you saw it!

Yay! So glad you got to see it.

I am too!! I see it in imax and did not realize I bought an imax ticket lmao.

But man, I don’t know where to start with everything. Absolutely loved the conjure/root work rep. And how it was framed as a positive thing.

The scene where the music was conjuring past and future ancestors was the first point that I cried.

Also idk this may be a reach but I think the vampirism was an allegory for colonialism.

Because while you could just see it as being ‘yay vampires’ the fact that they used Irish settlers as the ones who initially were turned is kind of indicative of ‘they were at the time not considered white but they were accepted because they joined the clan’

And it spread from there.

*klan thanks autocorrect

yes, this lmao

Exactly that.

Yup, I thought it as really well done too.

I did, too. And showing how colonizing hurts everyone, including the colonizers and those who align with them.

Yessssss this. The fact that they had multiple minorities involved in it really hit it home for me.

And the scene at the very end with the white men basically reinacting the vampire siege, like....

I need to watch it again to look for more compliments and contrasts but damn.

That single camera scene through the years was just so amazing

I definitely need to see it again.

I went to see it w some friends, and one guy had actually heard of the mississipi delta chinese before. it was really eye-opening from a representational standpoint for me as well

hailee totally killing it

I def agree vampirism seemed to be more of an analogy for colonialism than racism. my Black friend said it was a 'the real evil is racism' movie, and I think that's true, but mostly insofar as that racism is an extant form of colonialism

Yes! They built quite a bit of the early railroads.

esp given the way irishness was handled

Yeah, that’s what I picked up on. That they were all trying to hold onto their cultures but the ones who abandoned theirs first (the Irish family) were the first to be infected.

Also money being the most evil thing in the film in one way or another.

Because profit and riches is how colonization gets its foothold in.

Yep. Every time.

yeah that's definitely true!! the desire to turn a profit, that's the evils of civilization hijacking survival mechanisms

Yes that.

And idk, you could come out of the film thinking the message was just ‘white people bad’ (which let’s be real, most of the world’s ills trace back to a white man somewhere) but I thought it was more nuanced than that.

It seemed a lot more nuanced than that.

Yeah, I agree. Apparently a lot of white audiences walked out on it when it first dropped but I’m also not surprised by it.

They’re the ones who should have stayed for the whole thing.

Some people hate their own reflections.

lol I did not know the white audiences were doing all that

Oh wtf... glad I didn't see that here. Both times we went the place was packed.

And all races

Also just saw the rerelease of the 70mm imax already sold out too

It was in the news on opening weekend.

The showing I saw was moderately full, but imax seats like 300 people. I’d say there were about 100 there and it was at 2:30 on a weekday.

Oh damn. That's so sad. But then Abs had older people at Cabaret upset about it being so sad and depressing and why is it "suddenly" about nazis so...

Lmao people are so weird.

Suddenly? lmfao Ooookay.