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The Treatment

Elegance Bratton, Jeremy Strong, and what the film ‘Claudine’ meant to director Robert Townsend

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Treatment, Elvis sits down with director Elegance Bratton, whose film “The Inspection” is based on his experience as a queer Black man who goes from being homeless to joining the Marines. Next, Emmy winning actor Jeremy Strong talks about his latest role in the James Gray film “Armageddon Time.” And on The Treat, director Robert Townsend talks about a 1974 film that reflected his experience and had a killer soundtrack.

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0:00.0

From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

0:14.3

It's The Treatment.

0:15.5

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

0:16.5

I'm very excited to be talking to a very talented filmmaker who I think as in a couple of films has done

0:22.9

something interesting and that he's made the way people deal with fear the fear is survival

0:29.6

this kind of elemental theme of his work according to the documentary peer kids to his feature

0:35.8

traumatic I should say narrative fiction film, and the film

0:39.3

is the inspection. I'm speaking to by your director, Elegance, Bratton, Elegance. Thank you so much for being

0:45.3

here. Thank you for having me, Elvis. What a pleasure. That thing that runs through these films

0:50.6

is fear and doing what takes to survive. That's really interesting because

0:55.6

it's not just about the day-to-day of these characters and these pieces, and shouldn't

1:00.8

say characters in peer case because they're real people, but also kind of holding really

1:05.6

heart and head together, amidst the trying to survive day-to-day. That's really important in these two movies, isn't it?

1:13.3

It's such a hard thing for me to talk about sometimes,

1:15.6

and I think it's something I'm wrestling with in my work,

1:17.7

and I wrestle with as a human being,

1:19.7

is to express the meaning of invisibility in the world of we live in.

1:24.7

But I think people who are invisible often have to navigate

1:29.0

fear in order to survive because invisibility is both enforced, but also at times innate

1:36.8

in the house to describe it, you know? So I always say that, you know, black queer people,

1:42.6

we live in the blind spot of a color that, you know, black queer people, we live in the blind spot of a colorblind post-racist society, racism society, where you are seen but not heard.

1:55.2

I remember, you know, the moment in my life where I realized that my life would be different because of who I am.

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