A Jazzman's Blues | Tyler Perry

A Jazzman's Blues

Dir. Tyler Perry | 2022 Film

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(*Bolded indicates not my words*)

• If you watch nothing else, please watch the scene at 56 min. with Citsy & Leanne/Bucket

• Love that Joshua Boone (Bayou) sang "Paper Airplanes" & others that he performed- didn't notice the significance of paper airplanes when the song played earlier in the movie until Bucket was holding them at the end .. that's how she'd tell him to come outside to go down to the tree

  • Shout out to Ruth B.'s version of "Paper Airplanes" as well .. so enchanting, heartbreaking

• Rabbithole reminded me of this Love Craft Country scene of the multiverse .. go watch the series!!

I don't like Bucket .. great acting?

• 56:42

That was disgusting.

A truly moving and necessary scene.

Bucket's ability to transcend her Blackness to present as a white woman physically, then knowingly harness its power to inflict pain on a Black body.

Poignant that Citsy asked her - "why would you..." Yes, make Bucket say it, to spell it out...

Also drove Bayou's point home that she "sure does act like it" (52:46)

• Was not surprised in the slightest that Bucket's mama would lie to protect herself.

*Immediate tie to Emmet Till, whos beloved life was stolen over a white woman's lie about being catcalled. (I haven't watched the new movie yet on him, Till.. mostly because Love Craft Country rewrote the narrative in my head in their use of a white woman's body to receive the pain inflicted on Emmett .. that sits better in my soul right now than the reality)

• I'm writing this halfway, so I'm interested to see if time jumps now that Bayou is out of town on account of running from the town's KKK

+ Interesting that they weren't dressed up in their white cloak costumes, rather Perry left them plain-clothed in the back of a pick-up truck, led by the sheriff - true reality (1:11:07)

• Bayou is on the side of the road throwing up when his white music manager starts speaking on being a jew in nazi germany - watching his wife and children be murdered, the cattle cars... "sometimes you have to go on, so you can come back to help" (1:15:48) .. interesting choice that this relationship is being presented (...kanye)

• (1:51:12) I would have never thought .. imagined .. and yet, it's so obvious. Why wouldn't he? What's left? Strange fruit

In Reflection..

• My heart jumps when I'm too far in it. When Bayou's face contorts to theirs.. his smile yours ..m his limp body yours .. the helplessness, mine. movie scene=, yes. but how different? how different than my fear when we're rearended, jumps my mind to your limp body lit with accusatory police lights..memories intertwined. moments paralleled. airplanes to the moon.

if the birds stop singing, the rain stops falling, the sun wont shine on you .. even then,

The promo picture says "Never Stop Loving" and contrary to my sentiments above .. I do think Bayou should of stopped and moved on once he realized the life path she chose, I agree with his Mama .. Leann was way too self-centered to take care enough to protect

• 3 November 2022 | Washington D.C. •