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Hey, you're listening to the Partial Exam in Life episode 162, part two on the works of James Baldwin.

We'd kind of just wrapped up by talking about him as a profit and the tension between love and power and pain and rage.

It's being the things that he was grappling with.

I want to just talk about the documentary as a film because I have a confession to make.

I kind of didn't like it that much at first.

I liked it. It was good.

Roe Pate, his documentary style is kind of a stream of consciousness kind of style.

And I think that it ended very strongly.

I thought it stuck the landing, so it ended well.

However, I am a person who teaches film theory and I write about film and all the kind of stuff.

And I felt like it meandered a lot.

There were just a lot of things in the documentary.

It just kind of went off on tangents.

What Baldwin was trying to do, he was trying to write a story about his three friends that were assassinated.

And we had clear moments where he said, this is when I met them and this is when I learned they died.

And then he began to try to tell a story about America and about blackness and by talking about it through the lens of their three lives.

Then there's just all this other stuff that's just in the periphery.

Like it's just looking at creeks while the rain is falling.

And then it goes and talks about the rain, the hands, which is important.

I love her. I love her thought.

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