Wondering which movie to watch this weekend? Why not try Just Mercy. Read Trending's review of the movie starring Michael B Jordan and Jamie Foxx, here.
Black pain. It’s a reality we live with and a narrative depicted over and over again on screen. It’s exhausting and all-encompassing. I for one don’t know how many more cinematic depictions of it I can take.
In it, the lives of young black lawyer Brian Stevenson and Walter McMillian intersect when Stevenson – a Harvard graduate – decides to work on death row in Alabama, US, where racism is rife and pungent. The film is predictably harrowing and infuriating, but how many more times are we going to watch this story play out?
It’s not that Just Mercy isn’t well portrayed, it is, but that as a black person I can only handle so much injustice at any given time. We need more positive black stories, because there are many.
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