The SINNERS of Ryan Coogler
it should be obvious that a film with this much Michael B. Jordan cannot be anything but an essential film. *this is a spoiler filled deep dive into Sinners as well as Ryan Coogler's career thus far* The split personality, a long held literary and cinematic trope, is almost as prolific as its inverse, the cinematic twin played by a single actor, yet, traditionally, each serve distinct and separate purposes. Both of these have mined ample horror as well as metaphorical consideration into the nature of the soul, though the cinematic twin is often a performance tour de force, even verging on stunt casting, while the split personality is almost exclusively reserved for “madness.” In Ryan Coogler’s Sinners , one of two semi-recent twin centered releases (the other Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17 , which utilizes its twins for humanist metaphor and political critique), these dueling visual motifs converge, at the very least thematically. Doubling his prefe...