“I usually say [that] black men are everything because they have so many facets to them that we don’t normally get to see because of the media.”
The film, by newcomer Joe Talbot, explores the friendship of Jimmie Fails and Montgomery Allen as they attempt to overcome the personal and structural obstacles against them as black men in an increasingly gentrified San Francisco. By exhibiting their complexity as caregivers and artists, the
Both artists and caregivers in their own right, Jimmie and Montgomery are each other’s support systems. Jimmie uses his skills as a carpenter to repair his family’s old home, encourages Montgomery’s writing, and works as an assistant in a retirement home. Montgomery, an aspiring playwright, observes a group of black friends in the neighborhood, sketches the characters and buildings around him — while his day-to-day is working at a fish market and caring for his nearly blind grandfather.
Abandoned emotionally by his father and physically by his mother, Jimmie spends most of the film in the lure of his family’s beautiful, Victorian home in a newly gentrified Fillmore District, instead of fixating on how to be his most authentic self. All the young black men in the film recognize how performing masculinity works as a shield against hurt, but in a twist of fate, also experience the freedom in giving into vulnerability.
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