All Day and a Night (2020)

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All Day and a Night is a Netflix American Drama movie who released on May 1, 2020 (United States), directed and written by Joe Robert Cole The film itself tells of Lincoln's who played by Ashton Sanders struggle not to pursue the fate of his father, James Daniel Lincoln a.k.a JD who played by Jeffrey Wright, who is serving life in jail, exploring the traumatic chorus, showing the cycle of black men's trauma in America. It also starring

Plot

Jah and Delanda

Jahkor Abraham Lincoln, also known as Jah, is a calm and observant young man who has never had a chance. Jah was first brought up by his physically violent and emotionally distant father J.D., and then a series of temporary fathers. He had long discovered that the only way to survive in East Oakland was to internalize J.D.'s curriculum on toxic masculinity. Under the influence of TQ, a friend who also troubled his childhood, Jah changed from a small plight to an informal bodyguard role with the local drug magnate Big Stunna. What Jah really likes to do is to make music, and he will play a song or two in his spare time. However, once his girlfriend Shantaye became pregnant, his narrow choice was further narrowed, leading to a desperate, well-thought-out double murder.

Jahkor offered to kill Malcolm (Stephen Barrington), Stunna's opponent, and executed Malcolm and his girlfriend Cece (Cydnee Barry) at home in front of their daughter Miesha (Bianca Richelle). After being arrested, Jacole discovered that TQ and his former friend T-Rex were working for Malcolm. When Jahkor killed TQ while in prison, Stunna and his girlfriend killed T-Rex. When Shantaye took his son to live with his son, Jahkor met his son and told him that his son would not graduate like him or JD. Both Jahkor and JD are working hard to establish prisons.

Pros

Jah and his father "JD"

This film shows that despite the various traumas and racial discrimination faced by black people in the community, he can still improve his life in the last moments of the film, even if he is full of conspiracy, double crossing and murder.[1]

It also depicts that even though it is obvious that Jahkor himself has difficulty figuring out how to live in a black community, he is still willing to try to get a sales job, even if he is subjected to daily insults and suspicions.[2]

Controversy

"Slavery taught black people how to survive, but not how to live. And that’s what we pass on to each other. My father taught me how to take my fucked-up life out on everyone else.”

-The narrator, Jahkor Lincoln says it on the film

It is so painful knowing that black people have to experience all of traume and racism it in the film and still happen in the real life.

Despite the special plot or over-emphasized dialogue, they succeeded. The beats of this story are known quickly enough, but that does not mean they are formulaic. Sanders’ fascinating performance refuses to allow anyone to treat Jahkor as a victim or villain, rather than finding a tricky middle ground. "All-weather" wanders in the gray zone and often meanders, in this zone, the story can accumulate texture and feeling, not just the sum of plot mechanisms.[3]

There is also a scene in the athletic-shoe store where Jahkor lands a job and when a white woman who enters the store doesn’t believe he works there just because he is black. It shows that some people still thinking bad things about black people.[4]

Despite the crueltiness and violence, there is also joy and happiness that have to show in this movie.

"I grew up in the type of environment JD and Jah inhabit, and though there was hard times, violence and death, there was also joy, pleasure and even happiness. Unlike far too many movies of this ilk, we weren’t too afraid to show it."[5] -Odie Henderson on Rogerebert.com (2 stars out of 5).

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