SINNERS MOVIE REACTION
Added 2025-06-07 13:48:00 +0000 UTC
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Remicks song rocky road to Dublin hit me so hard when I first saw this flick my great grandpa used to sing this song when I was a kid I could smell his house while I was in theaters watching this.
tyler garner
2026-01-25 09:03:37 +0000 UTCThe term you’re thinking of at the beginning is the One Drop Rule. Loved this movie and your thoughtful analysis as always, Taco! 🙏🏿
J L
2025-08-05 03:13:27 +0000 UTCBest movie of the year, if not the last couple, and great reaction to it. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Remmick being Irish is such an important detail and for me fully flipped the script of what I was expecting from this movie. It’s implied heavily that he’s so persuasive because he was also oppressed through a very similar kind of subjugation as the black folks here. Ireland is STILL split along religious lines, and the Irish were and are discriminated against and controlled by the English. Their language was banned— English schools were required and kids were beaten for speaking Gaelic, which is exactly how it went down for Indigenous children in Canada and the US. Land was stolen, Irish men were killed with impunity, and like people today STILL say shit like “they’re dirty, they’re disgusting” etc etc. And that transferred to the international diaspora in other countries too— job and housing discrimination, signs posted outside businesses that read “no Irish, no Blacks, no dogs”. And then with the way the vampires are described as being souls trapped in their bodies, unable to join the ancestors, it’s just this tragedy that he’s looking for community and connection but the only way to do that is to continue a cycle of violence against another oppressed group. I think it’s such an important detail that the other group trying to kill him was Indigenous, like another group of people who have been so brutally impacted by colonial violence and systems of oppression. Did he go after them too, looking for people like his people? So when he finally dies and the refrain of “Rocky Road to Dublin” plays again, it’s like Annie says— he’s finally free to rejoin the spirits and his people, it’s a release for all of those turned souls. And then the reveal that Stack and Mary are left “alive” at the end, another cycle over again, perfectionnnn 💯💯💯 Anyway sorry for the comment dump haha, I’m home sick and loved watching this again with you 🦊
Natasha
2025-06-11 21:58:22 +0000 UTCI swear as I was watching this in the theater I was hand carving awards to throw at Delroy and Michael. Also let's hear it for Grace Cho balling the fuck out. She said, not my husband, not my child, no ma'am.
Aquielle
2025-06-09 14:28:24 +0000 UTCWelcome back! Loved this movie, it will probably be a few days before I can watch your reaction but I’m really looking forward to it!
Valaree
2025-06-08 03:29:43 +0000 UTCThere is truly so much to say about this film and it's multiple layers of commentary on race, culture, loss and assimilation of both. Remmick talks of a time when his culture was taken by another and just wants to go back to his people, this put him at, at least a good few hundred years if not over 1000, seeing as Christianity reached Ireland sometime before 450. In the US, as far as I know, the Irish and Italians were treated as ethnically different from 'regular' Caucasians, racism within white cultures for decades, . The English have been the same with their own countrymen (and everywhere else we've gone), it wasn't long ago stamping out of the Welsh language was still policy, Cornish is dead. He wants his culture back but also at the price of assimilation of another. One comment you made about how racism is different in other places if that's it's hidden in the systematic application of it. Here we have more of a class issue, but race is very closely tied into this as minorities regularly end up in lower classes and upward movement is hard. I taught in inner-London colleges for a long time and saw it in my young people, always lower class kids getting stopped and searched (Police stop and search suspects based on descriptions of criminals) largely black or mixed race kids, and it affects them and their outlook in life, based on what? That they're 16/18, darker skin and wear hoodies, that's 90% of London kids. Aaaanyway, I found this movie to be beautiful in the way that music could transcend time, all the culture that came before you, and will come after you is bridged. Imagine all the culture you'll never experience you experience, or is lost, isn't lost any longer, you are part of a collective of your ancestry, a drop in that pool. The music was such a wonderful thing, in the 'main' song, I grew up listening to a bunch of the various genres depicted and seeing it presented in this way was incredible.
AngryGreen
2025-06-07 21:45:58 +0000 UTCYou'd have to read it. 📚 I was just sharing bc your comment brought back the memory of reading it and learning so much I didn't know as a college student. My fav literature class in college was focused on Black literature. I read so many amazing authors: Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston . . .
Melissa
2025-06-07 21:11:51 +0000 UTCRIGHT!! forgive me, I could not think of it in that moment
Raymond Walker
2025-06-07 18:47:55 +0000 UTCDescription of the play: "Dion Boucicault's controversial 1859 play, The Octoroon, is a melodrama set in antebellum Louisiana that explores themes of race, identity, love, and plantation life. The story centers on Zoe, an octoroon (one-eighth African American) and the illegitimate daughter of the plantation owner's deceased husband. Zoe falls in love with George, her European-educated white nephew, but their relationship is complicated by racial tensions."
Melissa
2025-06-07 18:05:27 +0000 UTCI think it was 1/8. I read a play in college called "Octoroon," which is the first time I learned about that history.
Melissa
2025-06-07 18:04:23 +0000 UTCWent to see the movie for the first time on Thursday and I was so excited to see the notification that you put this up today!
Henry Leor
2025-06-07 17:49:24 +0000 UTCI am so so so stoked to watch this again.
Melissa
2025-06-07 17:13:16 +0000 UTC
