Many filmmakers face certain challenges when telling a story, which amounts to a responsibility they have to adhere to. Drama-filled films require each filmmaker to focus on the picture at hand.
With stories set in a time when Black Americans were enslaved, filmmakers find innovative and creative ways to tell these same stories that have been told before but haven’t been told by the individual making it. This makes the film’s fundamental horror one that the audience becomes accustomed to.
“Lawman Bass Reeves”
Is a drama-filled film created to question every point of what freedom means for enslaved people. This is where it all originates from, as the legendary Bass Reeves lives there, a place where he became a great hero and one of the first black deputy marshals around the West of the Mississippi River.
Bass worked as a language translator for the storekeepers and visitors of the local trading post. During this course, Reeves meets a former soldier from his confederate days who now happens to be a prisoner, from whom he learns about the Union’s win and that emancipation has arrived.
The film scenes combine tension that keeps the audience on the edge. Bass lets the audience feel every emotion, including weeping and shaking. This film puts together an uncomfortable and terribly eerie feeling that sends a chill up the spine, capturing uncomfortable moments that are unkind, unjust, and inhumane towards the lives of black folks back in the day.
From executive producers Taylor Sheridan and David Oyelowo, comes the untold story of the first Black U.S. Marshal, Bass Reeves.
#Clique, what are your thoughts on this film?
