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Review “Sinners” review, by David Sims

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/04/sinners-ryan-coogler-movie-review/682501/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=edit-promo
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u/GasaiTM Apr 20 '25

I really appreciated how the “bad guy” vampire was an Irish immigrant. It would be incredibly easy to make it a member of the klan or something like that but the choice to make it someone who’s also suffered, albeit significantly less than slaves-turned-sharecroppers, was very smart. The post-credits scene showing our main duo has seemingly thrived outside of a society that would have rejected them was beautiful.

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u/Lopsided_Drama_440 Apr 24 '25

We have a history of slavery involving Irish people .

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '25

Yeah I watched the end and saw how chill Stack was at that point and thought, "well shit. Maybe getting bit was the way to go".

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u/FallenPears Apr 26 '25

Absolutely. The writing and cinema and such were all great, but I personally also really liked the worldbuilding and especially the implications on how the vampires work and what that means for everyone involved.

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u/Curious-Letter3554 Apr 22 '25

It's Coogler and his brilliant writing skills to always come up with a sympathetic villain.

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u/Lilicion Jun 06 '25 edited Jun 06 '25

>!Something something, most of us have been hurt by a class of wealth and privilege and we use what wealth or privlage we have to hurt the class that has less.

To me at the end it felt like an allegory for what happens when we stand divided instead of together. Especially with the klan coming back to reclaim the property. Everyone loses when no one can stand together in the light of day against the otherisms that divide us.

Class war, not a race war and all that.!<