Sinners (2025)

[Mannahnin]

I absolutely loved it. It tried a bit too much at once (

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as much as I love racists getting shot, the KKK shootout after the climax felt wrong and unnecessary

You know, I'm of two minds about this. On the one hand, it did feel a bit anticlimactic, and like gilding the lily.

OTOH, it also confirms that Remmick was telling the truth, and that the KKK really were coming. If the vampires hadn't showed up, they (and probably anyone else still there in the morning) would have been lynched. Their dream of having their own place ("For Us, By Us", remember) truly was a soap bubble. That's the biggest horror of this horror movie, and maybe drives the central point home in a way the vampires alone couldn't. You can kill an exploiter, you can defend yourself from a murderer or stake a vampire, but you can't just kill an exploitative system and society that you're trapped in. The movie makes this point a little more subtly in other places, like the twins talking about how Chicago is like Mississippi, but with tall buildings instead of plantations. Or how the people attending the opening night didn't actually have enough money to make the juke joint profitable and sustainable. But the lynching squad showing up really hammers the point home.

 

[chuckdee]

@Mannahnin

Thanks for writing that. You get it. It's the same as the post-credits scene. Both show something to those willing to look beyond the surface. It was merely a dream, and a dream remembered is better than immortality. It was a case of show, not tell... but in the blatant obviousness of the delivery, to some, the more subtle message was missed.