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<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cI can\u2019t be a pessimist because I\u2019m alive,\u201d \u201cI\u2019m forced to be an optimist.\u201d – James Baldwin<\/p>\n
Im not your Negro is an up to date documentary about the examination of race relations in America narrated by Samuel L Jackson. In I Am Not Your Negro, \u00a0director Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished – a radical narration about race in America, using the writer\u2019s original words. He draws upon James Baldwin\u2019s notes on the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr to explore and bring a new and radical point of view\u00a0to the current racial narrative in America.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n This documentary has a lot of footage you wouldn’t find on youtube, of Baldwin eloquently arguing, speaking and questioning the preconceived ideas about race in different environments. This documentary is based upon an unfinished manuscript of Baldwin’s called Remember this House. With which\u00a0Baldwin never got farther than 30 pages before his death, the manuscript goes into his study of three lives in the civil rights movement. All three of the leaders were under the age of 40 when they were martyred: Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers and Malcolm X.<\/p>\n Raoul Peck goes further in depth stitching together a film that is fully contemporary; he shows the text from Baldwin\u2019s era to show that his ideas are timeless, and that the battles have not been won. Through careful yet bold editing choices, Peck applies Baldwin\u2019s words to events such as the Rodney King beating and the Black Lives Matter protests in Ferguson, Mo. It\u2019s bracing, invigorating stuff, the editing keeping pace with Baldwin\u2019s words, from the self-reflective, sensitive manuscript informed by his personal history, to his fiery orations at the Cambridge debates or on the Dick Cavett show.<\/p>\n I Am Not Your Negro is a thrilling introduction to Baldwin’s work, a crash\u00a0course in American history, and an advanced seminar in racial politics. It is concise, roughly about 90 minutes and it doesn’t try to be an easy or a overly consoling movie, but it isn’t bitter or despairing either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Finso Gyaltsen. Viewed at Santa Barbara Film Festival of 2017. \u201cI can\u2019t be a pessimist because I\u2019m alive,\u201d \u201cI\u2019m forced to be an optimist.\u201d – James Baldwin Im not your Negro is an up to date documentary about the examination of race relations in America narrated by Samuel L Jackson. In I Am Not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,3,290],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentary","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/135206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}