Raoul Peck’s searing new documentary examines the Reels family’s attempts to hold on to the property they’ve owned for over 100 years. He takes us inside the filming of an essential American story.
Both women complete each other; they have a powerful voice. You hear Mamie talking, and she has a very clear understanding of class. She says at one point, “What are you going to do with us Black people?” and then she changes it to, “What are you going to do with uspeople?” That's a class analysis, because she understood it was beyond her color. It's about a whole country being transformed through money and greed, and she's clear in everything of that….
If I'm looking at American cinema, American documentary today, there is a convention now in telling a story about people. They have a problem; you go make a film about it and you leave; and the rest of the world just sees a film and they continue their life. For me, it's important to not only to feel that you are there with them, but that their existence is as important as yours. That's the most important thing for me. And to do that, you can't rely on a traditional [format].
I don't make documentaries as a more artistic report on the subject. For me, it has also to be a film that you can watch several times, be enriched with characters, with drama. If it’s a Netflix film—or yeah, even Amazon as well—you need to tell them what the film is in the first three minutes. I resist that, because if I do that, you don't even have to bother to know those people. You can't humanly see them as human beings because they’re already a product.
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