Jeymes Samuel, a British singer/songwriter known as The Bullitts and the film's director/co-writer, provides commentary in a live performance video for Netflix Playlist.
to not address slavery and racism bang on. I just want to a make a movie about these people living by themselves and it just be a celebration of these people’s existence and our people’s existence, as opposed to living under the man,” Samuel clarifies in the video segment explaining the song “Jim Crow Count” before giving Zazie Beetz a countdown as she breaks out into a riveting performance of the march-like anthem. “But I do talk about it subtly within song and within melody.
With “Wednesday’s Child,” Samuels explains how the song recalls the better days before slavery’s existence and how the blue lady dancing while Smith sings the song in the movie represents “the sea and the middle passage. Her dance signifies hope. Everything we experience as an oppressed people, we still find strength in our spirit to celebrate that hope,” he adds, with the video unveiling Smith’s somber, blue-tinted performance.
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