So in the film, it's all been leading up to this big party, this one night of freedom,

the kind of freedom and exclusivity of this juke joint off some ways away from town

is framed as an escape from the oppressiveness of the Jim Crow South.

So there's this kind of catharsis in this scene

where we've been waiting.

We've seen all the planning again.

The movie is like an hour

with just the planning of this night.

And you finally get this big performance

where in a kind of magical surrealist moment,

you get a visual representation of the musical traditions that led up to the blues,

including like an African dancer, and then also the lineage of the blues extending into the

future with this Afro-futurist, Bootsie Collins-type performer. And then also in a nod to the

Chinese-American couple who is friends with this

community and helping out in the tending bar and stuff in the juke joint, a kind of traditional

Chinese dancer. And it feels very much like a, again, it should be a kind of corny. It feels like

a kind of corny we of the world all holding hands.

Look at the synthesis of the melting pot and how beautiful America is moment.

But there's something about the score, the intensity of it that doesn't feel cheap in the least.

And I was sort of looking around in the movie theater like, is everyone else buying this?

It's like, am I the only one who's kind of into this because i'm a corn dog no i have not heard a single person say anything negative about this

scene yeah i'm right with you both of you it's like when it first started i was like oh my god because i

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