Just watched Sinners
Can anyone enlighten me on why they picked on Irish immigrants? Did blues get coopted by Irish historically?
I don’t get it
Just watched Sinners
Can anyone enlighten me on why they picked on Irish immigrants? Did blues get coopted by Irish historically?
I don’t get it
They picked the villain to be Irish because theyve also had a history of colonization and the vampirism is an analogy for assimilation.
Irish being colonized, not coloni-zing.
Wouldn’t it make more sense to make him British?
The Irish were (are) colonized. They were originally an out-group, but were subsumed into “whiteness” at a later point in history.
Vampirism represents this assimilation.
But now he’s a colonizer (in the film)
The Irish today are some of the most respectable people against colonization. Just see their solidarity with Palestinians.
To paint them as colonizers seems wrong and offensive
Joe biden’s Irish and there are a lot more like him in the US than you might realize.
the irish are, irish-americans were not. american history has MANY examples of americans with irish descent (as well as irish immigrants themselves) perpetuating “anglo” style colonization; the book “the great arizona orphan abduction” details a lot of it (and it’s especially fascinating since it happened at the same time as nina).
I think it’s more that the original Irish person is himself a victim having been assimilated into a greater vampiric colonial entity, becoming its mouthpiece and mistaking integration for liberation
tbh that aspect of the movie is clunky as it makes it too easy to substitute “collectivist ideology” for the vampiric hivemind, especially in contrast to its glorification of bootstrapping individual heroism
Remmick had been “trapped” in the US for centuries. It’s about how oppressed become oppressor through assimilation, which many irish americans did
This tracks with having him being hunted by Native Americans in his introduction.
Irish person living in America. Think more Irish-American, less Irish.
Great bit