I first heard the buzz of “Sinners” all around everywhere, especially on TikTok. Everyone loved it and I wanted to
go see it as well to give my thoughts of it but not in the movie theaters so I waited until it came out on Prime.

The influences in this movie are heavily influenced off of African culture, creole culture, African American, Asian, Southern, gothic, vampire which is such a ambitious blend of genres.

And it’s also influenced off of hoodoo, a African American spirituality and a mixture of myths and horrors of vampires. So a southern mainly African American movie that takes place around the 1930s in the sweltering hot Mississippi delta in
the summer that showed true topics like the one drop rule and even having a actor play the part of it. The movie follows a myth from the 1930s about music being demon-fueled and bringing evil as the main story plot.

The scene where they “time travel” back into the African root and to current day shows how much its changed and grow into such different genre and how diverse and how far African roots have gone and became new things.

As for the musical additions it was paired very nicely with music that matched and shaped this movie right with not too much singing and the songs had background and feeling with 30s Southern blues
music that just fits it.

Also the details in the setting like since it took place in the 1930s where Jim Crow laws showed in the setting its often pocs, “people of color,” were in the more rural areas.

The director did a amazing job with picking the right actors for each part, like Michael B Jordan who played TWO characters at the same time and embodied their separate personalities great. It felt like for real two different people; and Miles Caton, he’s a new actor this was his first every movie he starred in and he sung his hear out well. And they both won awards.

You can watch “Sinners” on Prime video, HBO MAX, Youtube and more.