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Parasite and Last Black Man in San Francisco

2020-02-29 17:31:03.566318+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Two movies recently that have snuck up on me. We watched "Parasite", came home and read a bunch of stuff on the movie from a Korean perspective, and said "oh, that's what that was about". Which was fine, but last night we watched "Last Black Man in San Francisco". What a gorgeous movie. Even as I was trying to figure out what the film was about, I was rapt by the love letter to the city, and the delicate exploration of the contrast of what SF was when I moved here in the 90s vs what it is now (and what it was in the 1890s vs what it is now).

It's about the lies we tell ourselves about our heritage, and how we put our love into a place that's not really "ours", and what happens when that place becomes something that doesn't have a space for us.

It's slow-paced, beautiful, has layers of meaning that as a white guy who's been living in Marin and Sonoma for decades I can't parse, but has enough that I could connect with that I was enthralled.

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