Sinners, A movie with many Layers and most definitely the best movie of the year(Yeah I said it!!!)(Spoilers!!!)

You know a movie is good when it's got you glued to your seat from the moment you sat in it and it made you stay even after the supposed "end" just to see what was left over... you know, the post credits...

Sinners on the surface is a Vampires movie, but stopping it there is like saying that Game of Thrones is a series about family disputes, which yes, it is, but also... Dragons...

This movie can really be split into two halves, the first half is a period piece about two black men who are back from their service and life of crime and want to open a Juke Joint.

They go around town calling on their old friends to help in opening up the Juke Joint.

The second half and the first half are actually split using "that scene"

The scene where Sammy's true powers are revealed, Spoilers yeah...

The movie begins with voice over narration about various cultures having legends of people who can make music so pure that they can summon spirits from the past and the future, for a moment when they sing, all times are synced.

The Vampires want him to do... some sort of ritual...

In the context of the movie though, the vampires are allegories for invading cultures that dream of living on forever by sucking off of other cultures, where as Sammy and others like him are actually immortal as through their culture, some part of them lives on forever, that is what "that scene" represents.

Obviously the Vampires being who they are want this power for themselves.

Now the interesting thing is, those who become vampires do retain their individuality and become part of the collective, and it is as if they realize once on the other side that this is the way forwards...

This whole movie in some sense reminded me of Six Guns gang show down, that game too was about Vampires and other supernatural monsters in a period piece.

This movie is called sinners, and it definitely shows a lot of what people would historically consider as Sin, the Blues was always called the "devils music" there are various sexual acts, a married woman cheating on her husband, etc.

And to add to all that, the one survivor of the incident called preacher boy has a preacher father.

The movie however shows all of this religious what not for what it is, a means of controlling the true art of Humanity.

The vampires then represent a false form of freedom as while they offer immortality they are no longer welcome in homes unless allowed in or can see the sun.

I do not remember the last time I had seen a truly horrifying vampire done right, except for Nosferatu of course.

But remember how I had said that the Vampires do retain their true selves?

Then, it stands to reason that some of them would in fact be able to control themselves and live peacefully with humanity right?

Well yes, that is exactly what happens.

The Sinners has a post credits that shows Sammy aka preacher boy growing old and continuing his music and later the Vampire forms of Mary and Smoke come over to listen to him sing one last time, they offer to turn him into a Vampire but he declines and they go away peacefully.

You know I never thought they could mix truly horrifying horror Vampires with a version where they can live peacefully with Humans but they did it.

This movie also shows the mixing of various cultures with local Chinese merchants playing a big role in setting up the Juke Joint, and Mary having a half black grandfather and also being in a relationship with stack(maybe I am mixing the two, IDK)

Juke Joints are of course places where black people went to celebrate their culture after being freed from slavery so they do play a huge part in their culture, it is very poignant then that the Ku Klux Klan members that sold them this joint, sold it to make it a slaughter house but were of course stopped by the Vampires and then killed my Stack.

I am having trouble passing on how good this movie is, but it's great, go and watch it, it is truly something one should experience for themselves...