SINNERS (2025) Dir. Ryan Coogler

Wunmi Mosaku

For Schön! Magazine by camraface (May 2025)

Spoiler alert for Sinners!

A huge theme in Sinners is ancestral protection and connection. Making sacrifices so that fire remains stoked. The roots that Annie’s grandmother taught her that she uses to keep Smoke safe. When Delta Slim said the blues is something that we brought from home. A gift that connects the past, present and future. When we got that beautiful scene with the dancers and musicians from every generation! The way everyone fought tooth and nail to let Sammie make it at the very least. When Sammie hugged that broken guitar close to his chest!! His only connection to the people he lost, both known and unknown. His connection to freedom as he flees the plantation. Cinema.

everything just really comes down to how I wasn't a person for most of my life. by which I mean I did not consider myself a person. it made such a profound impact on the way I navigated the world & yet standing on the other side of it I could hardly explain it to you

I felt an overwhelming sense of love. I'd never felt happier. I know I can't go through life expecting the world to come to me. But Nana let me dream a wonderful dream. It was like falling in love for the very first time.

NANA (2005) dir. Ohtani Kentaro

said by someone who didn't watch the movie... ? i know what you are lmfaooo. only a certain ✋🏻 demographic would see a movie wherein a white man leads a hive minded lynch mob to rob a young black man of his autonomy and voice, and instead of engaging with any of the messages that are actually important, turn it into... slop

I never thought it could be done but somehow Sinners managed to make a story about two men that want to kill each other more homoerotic than death note.

If I see one more “Remmick doesn’t understand race bc he sees himself as Irish” post. You know what they did when they were given the chance?

Assimilate into white culture. Remmick knew what he was doing and he knew the way he was doing it was wrong. In the end he was chasing power not his ancestors.

We know what the Irish experienced in Ireland and the US but what did they do when they had the chance? “I don’t want to be treated like they treat black people!” They chased that white privilege and protection.

armand + head tilt

no?? i'm queer and black. i assume ur white because why in your right mind would you ship a racist white colonizer with a young black man...??? like what??? it's not about you being queer, it's about the very racist and tone deaf undercurrent of this "ship".

I never thought it could be done but somehow Sinners managed to make a story about two men that want to kill each other more homoerotic than death note.

I love that Ryan Coogler cast a big, thick and glorious dark skinned black woman as the main love interest and I love that the sex scene was unapologetically sexy and passionate. I loved seeing this big strong and muscular black man bend this big, thick ebony goddess over and gave her some hot and heavy soulful kind of love. It wasn’t wrong or gratuitous.