The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)

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The Last Black Man in San Francisco

Directed by Joe Talbot The Last Black Man in San Francisco is American Drama Movie based on his friend Jimmie Fails’s (played by Jimmie Fails) real-life experiences, a black man (Jimmie) and his best friend Mont (played by Jonathan Majors) who try to reclaim the house in Fillmore District built by Jimmie's grandfather. It also starring

This movie winning several awards including Best Independent Film in (AAFCA) 2019, Best New Filmmaker and Best Supporting Actor by Jonathan Majors. It also received several nomination including Best First Film in Austin Film Critics Association 2020, Outstanding Actor by Jimmie Fails and Outstanding Supporting Actor by Jonathan Majors in Black Reel Awards 2020. [1]

Plot

Jonathan Majors and Jimmie Fails in 'The Last Black Man in San Francisco.'

Jimmie Fails is a young man who works in Bayview-Hunters Point, San Francisco, as a nurse at a nursing home. Jimmie also spends time with his best friend Montgomery "Mont" in between his busy schedule. Jimmie is waiting every day for the Mont bus, then skateboarding to a Victorian house in the Fillmore District of the city, where Jimmie grew up and says his grandfather built him in 1946. At present, the home is occupied by an older white couple.

One day, Jimmie and Mont saw the owner of the house move their furniture to a truck. They hear from a mover that the mother of the woman has died, and now she's battling over the house with her niece. They discovered that it is expected that the house will remain empty in the next few years. Jimmie is sure to be delighted to hear this information because he's been waiting to take over the house for a long time. He started compiling a crazy plan with Mont. They're going to come to the house secretly.

Without Jimmie recognizing it, the Fillmore District is not the same location as it was a few years ago. Black people who have settled in the city have started to be eliminated. Other black people around him who express their frustration that they're often disenfranchised from San Francisco's life are the soapbox preacher that Jimmie and Mont frequently watch when they're waiting for the bus, and a group of young black men who hang outside Mont's place. All Jimmie's family, which he barely sees, are often disenfranchised, in one way or another, from the life of San Francisco.

Pros

Danny Glover, left, with Jonathan Majors

"moving tale of racial gentrification"

"Talbot’s film is not perfect. A scene who makes its point awkwardly, and the narrative, like its characters, is prone to meandering. But as a film about place and personal mythology, it’s hugely moving. and feels like the film’s fable-like quality."[2]

This movie shown the experience of a young black men trying to rescue his past and claim a right of return and how to dealing with redlining, gentrification, environmental racism and the chronic policing of black masculinity. With great storyline some people also give good response for this movie and tell its such beautiful, bold, and heartful tale of city.

Black communities of the city today feel under siege, and this film is unlikely to offer any material relief immediately. Still, the luminous depiction of the human race of Fails and his family members and friends, their expressions of longing for peace and refuge, is a breakthrough. It depicts my hometown and black people more frankly than any other big film in my life.[3]

A heartfelt tale of a city, friendship, home and hope. A story of Strong and deep friendship between Jimmie and Mont, keep dreaming of being able to own the house who gave him life purpose and kept him from suffering the fate of being black man in that environment make it such a great movie.[4] -Soren Andersen on Seattletime.com who gave 4 stars out of 5

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