Ma Rainey's black bottom (2020) 🎺

 

   Here comes a biographical film about nothing less than "the mother of the blues", Gertrude Malissa Nix Pridgett Rainey, well known as Ma Rainey. This is a film based on a musical pioneer for the black movement in the 1920s. Basically, a legend.

   "Ma Rainey's black bottom" introduces us to Ma's band. Our secondary characters here are Toledo, Cutler, Slow drag, and Leeve (pay attention to this one, this guy has a story to tell), the four of them are in the band, then we have Dussie Mae as Ma´s "girlfriend" (but this is not well-defined), Sylvester as Ma´s cousin, Irvin as Ma's manager and Mel Sturdyvant as Ma's producer in a recording session.

   In the film, we see a clear representation of black culture exploitation but, we also see our main character and heroine of this story fighting for what should be right and, it is not being segregated from HER art like it constantly happened to colored artists in the past. 

this was the true legend, Ma Rainey 

   The film took place on a very hot day in Chicago in 1927. Ma, her band and her manager arrived at Paramount's recording studios to rehearse and record with producer Mel Sturdyvant. SPOILER ALERT: Everything went out fine but the process of "rehearsing, recording, and coexisting" in the same place with people that don't feel the same things as you do is what made this film an Oscar nominee picture. Each character shares their own POV and this is exactly what makes the movie a troublesome situation in every aspect.

It is said that this is the last movie Chadwick Boseman played a role in before passing away. Rest in peace, King👑

   Even when we have Ma Rainey as our main character, our eyes should also need to land on Boseman's character (Levee). He played a "fictional" role, but even when it's not real, his character gives us a sense of how colored artists were somehow determined and optimistic to be successful in a time when there was little opportunity for colored people. The movie itself showed the way life was so difficult and frustrating for black people in the music industry. Leeve is a person to watch, he has got nothing in him but his music and enthusiasm to think of an accomplished future, however, the recording session on that fateful day put his plans on hold forever. In other words, his wings were cut down simply because he was black.

  On the other hand, we have Viola's Character (Ma Rainey), who presents herself as an arrogant Diva, you might hate her for this at first, but the reason she behaves that way is actually sensible:

“They don't care nothin' about me. All they want is my voice. Well, I done learned that. And they gonna treat me the way I wanna be treated, no matter how much it hurt them.”

   She clearly said she is nothing but a voice that white folks can feather their nest. She has a career that she does not want to rely on people that do not see her as an artist and Leeve is segregated once again by white folks even when he has a vision for "The Blues". 

👀VIOLA DESERVED BETTER AT THE OSCARS👀

Rate: 4/5

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It is a masterpiece

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