The post is about the movie If Beale Street Could Talk, directed by Barry Jenkins. Starring KiKi Layne, Stephan James, and Regina King. You can watch the film here on Amazon Prime Video.
The Passage of Love
You’re in a world where what you are perceived to be is made the sole matter of who you are. Dreams here are black and white. The divide has progressed but far from where it ought to be.
If nothing else at all, to know love matters in a world like this.
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Keepers of The Keys and Seals
When grouped on the opposite end of what’s fair and just you are inevitably left to contend with the wicked and its trickling effect in the mixed economy. With the morality of the controlling officials lying far from that, that is upright, welcoming inequity more than they oppose.
A corruption perpetuated by the relishing of power and authority in which the currency is that of unreason and misery. Within the societal let down, is the danger of its effect on the victimized, in which they are to be continually disheartened or wholeheartedly shattered and left to pick up the pieces, to at times, the demise of others.
To be worth anything less than the content of your character and spirit ought to be scrapped, but the reality reigns more true than not. For there to be preconceived notions of who you are is not an assumption, it’s a matter of fact, a fact in which you bear the burden of its consequences. One that estranges you from doing what you love most and being with the ones you love most. A heart that once candidly approached the world is hardened and subjugated in time by prejudice and bigotry. The consequence of the repressed is a social world in which a constant fear is that of judges, bars, and chains.
The Children of Our Age
To withstand the pressure of circumstance you come to find yourself entrenched in two things: faith and love. What musters within is the strength to maneuver your way forward, with a belief that there is good to be experienced to a greater capacity than the depth of pain you find yourself in.
Your toil is made the lesser by the love that meets you to be true, by those who embrace your pain and make it their own, doing all in their power to see you live a life you most certainly deserve. By any means is the only means and your shining light at the end of the tunnel matters just as much to you as it does them.
“Remember it was love that brought you here, and if you trusted it this far, don’t panic now. Trust it all the way.”
You were given each other. Shame falls by the wayside, your flesh made one, and you are part of a together in a time that is yet to come. Deeds of craft and gestures attest a love cemented and yearning to grow, with a never ending awe in coming to know the person they were created to be. You’re never to be worried when by their side, you’re safe in their embrace. A gift given to those when it is the made the most right; in experiences of trial, joy, sorrow, and challenge, love in its totality is made known in everyone of those moments.
So Our Children Can be Free
Innocence is all you have until it leads itself to ignorance. You then go on to experience a balanced understanding of benevolence and malice, shaping the person you are to become and giving you the deepest sense of this life.
“They say we gotta live the life that we’re given and live it so our children can be free.”
To grow is to take on all that you experienced and bare it voluntarily, in aim to honor the God who made you, and what you are to create. Your child is to experience the same balance of life, but void them of the shoulder you laid your head, and may they come to reap the reward from your toil.
To The Believer
Embrace the grace of a love wholehearted and transcend the strife unchosen. The strength to face the disjointed system resides in the connection that goes beyond life itself. Head of it. May we have the ear to hear what has been written on the heart of man.
“Many waters cannot quench love, Nor can the floods drown it. If a man would give for love, All the wealth of his house, It would be utterly despised”
Song of Solomon 8:7
Credit: Select script and imagery used in this post are from If Beale Street Could Talk (© Annapurna Pictures). Included for reflective commentary and thematic analysis.
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