Sinners

What does it mean to be true to myself? What does it mean to be oneself? These are the questions I’m left with after this true spectacle. The story is suspenseful, exciting, entertaining, but above all beyond profound. To me, the idea of this story is to question at what point do we let go of our identities to satisfy a societal narrative. The idea of being “assimilated” is truly profound, but not in the sense of being assimilated into the vampire collective. This made me think about the mainstream, white, greedy music industry. How many artists were faced with creative identity vs financial or societal success? Sammy was able to maintain his identity, his creativity, his true music without assimilating into the vampire collective, or in other words, appeal to what the music industry expects from true emotion in music. Why must we strip music of its emotion, experience, personality simply to sell records? How can an artist be who they are without contradicting what the mainstream seems to desire? I may be off with this, but frankly this is how i’ve interpreted this movie and it had a profound impact on me. There’s certainly various other themes, particularly of racial discrimination and identity, family, etc., and nobody could truly review this movie in a complete way in only a couple paragraphs.