sankofa

17 Mar 2015

Finally sat down to watch Sankofa this evening and...I don't know.

So many questions:

• Brother Shango (Xangô?) held a machete for a good half of the movie, and didn't cut a single person. Disappointed.
• Where in the U.S. was this plantation? There weren't very many successful maroon colonies in the U.S., IIRC (though I suppose that you could say that the cave folks didn't quite comprise a colony).
• Is Crazy Joe supposed to be a literally tragic mulatto?
• Why is everyone speaking as if they were from their respective countries in the 1990s?
• Why could I never like Shola?
• Why did this whole thing seem like a stage play that wandered out of doors?
• Should I just have re-read Kindred? I feel like the answer is 'yes.'