This is a fragment of what it is to experience a movie that’s viscerally black in a space that isn’t black. So it’s not something I’m intellectually aiming for or geared towards, but I feel no kind of way about it. But “Beale Street,” which is based on the James Baldwin novel and which Jenkins described as “aggressively black,” created no such tension for the director. “If the film was engineered expressly for white people to experience black pain, then I would feel a certain kind of way,” he said. I think because of that, I don’t feel any kind of way about the experience of a shared audience experiencing the work.”

Source: Huffington Post December 15, 2018 12:56 UTC