 I could not wait to get in front of the camera to talk to you guys about this film. My name is Brandon Keith Avery, and this is just my opinion. Hey, what's going on everyone? I want to thank you so much for tuning in to my opinion slash review for If Bill Street Could Talk, I really do appreciate it. Now I went to this film, If Bill Street Could Talk, completely blind. I did not see any trailers, any TV spots, nothing like that. I did that on purpose. I heard how good the film was coming to us released, how it well it did and how well it was received at the film festival earlier this year. Nua was a predominantly black cast, Nua is written and directed by Barry Jenkins, the brother that was behind Moonlight, the one all the awards a couple of years ago. So I wanted to go into this film completely fresh. And if possible, if you can stand it, I think you should do the exact same thing. Now this is a predominantly black cast, and of course that makes me proud. And earlier this year in 2018, I was a little worried when it comes to predominantly or films aimed at the black community. I mean, we got proud married with Taraji P. Henson. It was a disappointment wrinkling time by Sister Ava DuVernay. That was even a bigger disappointment. And then Tala Perry gave us that crap bag of a film, Acrimony. I could not stand that film. Other than Black Panther that was released in February, it just really wasn't looking that great. But later on in the year, we got Black's Clansman, we got Green Book, we got The Hate You Give, all fantastic films. I love them all. And I think that I love if Bill Street could talk just a little bit more. Like I said, Barry Jenkins, this dude right here is becoming my most favorite director of all time. He knows how to direct the film. He knows how to write a film. He knows how to pull all the right pieces together to give you a piece of art that you've never seen before. And as far as things that we've never seen before, especially like with black people, we get a ton of comedies and dramas and things like that. I mentioned Tala Perry, we got a ton of Kevin Hart films, Tiffany Haddish and things like that. Early in February, we got something that we've never seen before. We got a superhero blockbuster comic book film. We get biographies and things like that. But when's the last time we got a love story, a true love story, a film that is really a textbook example of black love? That's what if Bill Street could talk is. I mean, I'm not starting to waste your time. I want this film to win best picture. Seriously, I have not seen every film so I can't come. That was released this year. So I can't completely come to a conclusion. But right now this film is up there. I freaking love the hell out of it. Like I said, I think this is my third time sent already written and directed by Mr. Barry Jenkins is based off the novel by the Mr. late James Baldwin. The novel is of the same name. The first trailer of this film was released August 2nd, 2018 this year. That's James Baldwin's birthday. And so, you know, they wanted to give him some type of respect. If he was still alive today, he would be 94 years old. And when I say that this is a love story, it is a love story between two characters that they're the main protagonist of this film. We have Miss Kiki Lane by the name of Trish. And I think this is her first like big project. And we also have Mr. Stephen James, his name in the film was Alonzo Funny Hunt. He was in Selma and he was also in Race, which came out a couple of years ago. And I will be honest, I did not see that film. I do need to see it, but I can say hands down and I love the notebook movie that came out a number of years ago. I cannot I have never in my entire life off the top of my head rooted for a couple to make it as much as I wanted to make it in this couple. I mean, as much as I wanted this couple to make it in this film. I mean, my goodness gracious, their performances were splendid. Everything about them from their head to their toe, the hair, costumes, everything was just fantastic. I believed every word they came out of their mouth and I could put myself in their shoes, not only could I sympathize, but I can empathize. This just was a beautiful romance between these two individuals. And it gives me hope. And not only is this film a love story between these two characters. It is a love story between the whole picture and the whole family. I mean, we have this man and this woman, Trish and Fani that love each other very much. You have Regina Hall, the mother of Trish, who gives love throughout the whole family. The love between her and her husband is great, too. The love between the siblings, the cousins, the friends around the block, the person at the grocery store that stands up at a certain amount of times they have to do a racism. There is just so much love in this movie that it just speaks volumes and just really makes me feel enchanted for lack of a better word. Well, no, not lack of a better word. I think that's the perfect word to describe it. And what the director does so well is he knows how to paint the situation just to bring it out and make you feel all the emotions. And he does a really great job with that, especially with the score. Hands down, like seriously, this soundtrack, the score is one of the best scores I've ever heard. Seriously, I have done more with this soundtrack when the score after I've seen this movie that I've only done with like Hans Zimmer. He is the composer for the Dark Knight trilogy and things like that. I have jammed this soundtrack like over and over and over again in my car. You can do so much to it. It is just a freaking brilliant when I was on YouTube listening to the soundtrack. I was looking at some of the comments section, some of the comments for a number of songs in this movie. One of the comments was like, this song right here is the best description of life. And I don't remember the name of the comment. It said that it was just some random person. But to be honest with you, that's the best way to describe it. I am a big fan of fantastic scores in the way. Let me give this dude credit, Mr. Nicholas Bertel, he also did the composition for Vice, which is in theaters right now, and also the big short, which came out a number of years ago, which talked about how everything crashed in this country with the housing market. I really don't remember the score standing out that much, but it did stand out in this film. He also did the score of the soundtrack to music and Moonlight, which came out a couple of years ago. And the instruments that he used, I'm a big fan of the violin. And there were just a ton of strings in this movie. And it was just it was perfect. I mean, just to describe it, you know, it was just a beautiful composition of musical greatness. Just it made me feel some things that I've just never felt before. I felt when I was listening to the soundtrack, the score in this movie, I seriously felt like a melanated Superman. Like seriously, like I felt bulletproof. I felt like I can fly in space and move planets. I mean, that is just really how I felt. And then when you're matching that with all these great performances with Fani, with Stephen James, with Regina Haaland, things like that. I mean, it's it's it's nothing short of breathtaking, like real talk. And let me go back to the relationship between the two main stars, Fani and Trish in this movie. Fani is a good dude. He is a stand up guy. I mean, he is just a good man. I mean, he makes his woman feel comfortable at all times. He just he makes a way out of no way. And he does it with charisma and personality and just random swag. I mean, he's just able to do it. I mean, like, you know, he can have three nickels of pencil and a rubber band and can make a house out of it or at least make you feel good. You know, I mean, he would turn crap into a diamond. And I mean, I mean, he does that. And, you know, when I'm when I'm watching this movie, of course, I feel in a relationship that the male should lead. But of course, you know, you know, our strong sisters out there, our strong women out there, they do have a very equally important role in a relationship. But I like how it was written that sometimes either or party has to step up to the plate to defend the other one. And the way they did that in this film was brilliant. I mean, these two are like soul mates. Like there is a sex scene in this film and the lead up to it. I mean, you're just rooting for them and not a like a perverted way. But I mean, it felt like if these two individuals did not have sex in this moment right now, that all life in the universe would cease to exist. I mean, that's just the way it was. I mean, it was just like perfect like it was supposed to happen. Like they were seeding the earth literally. Like I cannot describe it. You just have to see the movie for yourself. And then when they have this beautiful score, this beautiful composition that comes in and caters to it and just elevates it to another level, it's just like, man, like I am like enlightened right now. Like, seriously, I feel like I'm I don't know, going through the sauce wall or something like that. But then that brings me up to my first complaint, my first gripe of the film. And it's just this gripe of why you have this perfect lead up to this beautiful scene to where everything is just good. It did get a little excuse me. It did get a little awkward, this sex scene while it was just so perfect. And I'm just eating it up like this with my hands clenched. Like, oh, yes, give it to her and you give it to him. For some reason, I don't know if the director was doing this on purpose or he was just trying to illustrate, you know, how some possibly virgins can bumble over themselves during the first time. It was awkward. He cut the music, put some other music on. And while I was going like this at first thing, I was like, wait, what happened? No. Go back to what you was doing before. I was loving it. I was loving it. It was great, you know, but it did not last that long, of course. But, you know, that that, you know, it did get a little weird for me right there. But, you know, that was just, you know, like just a little gripe for me that kind of made me upset right now. Actually, I'm thinking about it. But I also just like how the family itself engages. I say it's not just a love story between the two, the main couple. It's a love story between the whole family. I mean, Trish's sister, just the way she talks to her sister Trish or whatever, you know, when you're addressing your parents or anybody, you know, adult figure, you know what I'm saying? Be respectful, but don't bite your head. Stand up tall and, you know, be proud of what you're speaking in. You know, the way that the mother and father dance and in the living room in front of the dance, just like the file, he just, I love your mama. I love your mama. I mean, like this is, he didn't say that in the movie, but that's just a lot of what I'm thinking about. And it was just beautiful to see that on screen. It's just like this black love. And I think it's important for all families to, for, especially the children to see how much the husband does love the wife that is very important and will put a permanent staple, a good staple in their head on how a family should be raised. Not that, you know, everybody got a cater to the same thing, but I think you get the idea, but that's important for every family. And that's very important for every black family. Like, seriously, I haven't seen that in the film in a long time. I mean, I've seen it in blackish. I've seen it in black lightning just a little bit, but they knock it out the park in this movie right here. And there's nothing wrong with nothing like that. It's just like, you know, just pure love. I mean, like I saw my brother in this movie. I saw my dad. I saw my mom. I saw my cousin. I saw my sister, even though I don't have a biological sister. I saw my homeboys. I mean, there was just so much that I was able to relate to this film resonated to me in just such a way that even in more than Black Panther did. Like, seriously. And, you know, of course, you know, we were hyped for that movie. And then I mean, like just let's talk about another performance right here. Two performances. Regina Hall. Everybody wants a mama like this. I mean, Regina Hall, like, I mean, I love my mama to death. And, you know, my mom will go to the ends of the earth. You know, for me and my younger brother. And then Regina Hall was able to do that same thing. And this movie is like, seriously, move heaven and earth, you know, align the stars and all the planets and the solar system. I mean, she would do that for a love one. You know what I'm saying? And I just like how they just like remember Soulful that came out like 1997. Big mama and we are all these pieces. But if we gather together and make this mighty fist, you get the quarter. I don't remember exactly. But it was like that in this movie, times two. And not only like her, like just her performance is on top. Like, I ain't never felt an F word so much in this movie until I heard it come out of my mouth. But then Regina Hall may still not have the best performance. Mr. Brian Tyre Henry, you know what I'm saying? What's up, my brother? He popped up on the scene with me with Donald Glover and that series of Atlanta that's on FX like, man, hold up. Well, this film has so much joy and so much love. It also has some mundane daunting moments, too, because of course, it has to do with, you know, racism in the system of white supremacy. And, you know, how we're oppressed and I'm about to say all that good stuff. That shit is not good stuff. All that bad stuff. You know what I'm saying? But for somehow, you know, black people, we're still able to make it and have a good time and turn, you know, something into nothing. But when Brian Tyre Henry popped up on the screen or whatever, it was just like that home. But if you ain't seen it, you're like, oh, snap, bro, what's good? Look at what is good? How you been? Man, you look, you don't put us away. You still look good, but, you know, you eat them hamburgers. Oh, let's go over here. You know what I'm saying? I got some beers, yada, yada, yada. It's like, like, I felt like I was in the movie like as a ghost. Just like, you know, you know what I'm saying? What's up? But then when he sits down for the real and he is trying to catch his friend, finding up or whatever, like, it's like he is describing a like a real life nightmare that he cannot away from that, like, like seriously, like Freda Kruger is just after him. And he's talking about the system of white supremacy. The acting in it is so great. But when they're sitting down and talking, it's not just a dialogue or whatever that is bringing this singing life. It is the composition by Mr. Nicholas Brutale and the camera direction by Mr. Barry Jenkins, why this camera is centered on one person. It swivels over to the left like this and then swivels over to the right and just sits there and then the camera is moving. It's like, you feel like you're in the camera like looking at this person, talk like this and then looking at this person, talk like this. And then, like, when I was talking about the musical composition, what what Nicholas Brutale used was I think there were like big tubas, but it sounded like an air horn. We all know what an air horn or air horn sounds like. It's loud. It's annoying. And you wanted to stop, but he was able to use that tool. He was able to use that sound device to create this horrific image in your head as what Brian Tyre Henry is doing. And while I'm just sitting, I'm like, oh, my brother, I feel I'm I feel so sorry for you. I'm here. You know what I'm saying? It's just it's truly an awakening. You have all these these aspects of filmmaking coming into one just to give you this just bold scene that just stands out and speaks volume. And like, I just I just ate it all up. I mean, I love this film. I feel like I can just talk on and on and on, but this is just like I love this film. Other than the gripe that I talked about earlier, there was a there was like a big jump in the transition. Like there was a there was one scene it transitioned horribly to the next scene. I didn't know if the movie was over. It seemed like it was like a 10 second gap. We was looking like at a black screen. Like I'm looking over to the left, looking to my right. Like is the movie over with and then it starts back. But those are just really the only two gripes. Also, like how he just in Mr. Barry Jenkins just infused this like with real life stock footage of like, you know, plantation times and, you know, black men and black women being on the field, working to death that may sound horrible, like Brandon, why are you praising it? It's just the way that they taught it into the film of how nothing really has changed, because this film right here, it takes place in the 70s. And initially, I was just kind of asking myself, OK, when are they going to tell us what year this film takes place? But they really never do. And then I really appreciate that because while it is a period piece, it sounds so timeless, because like I just said, for us, much hasn't changed since, you know, the end of the Civil War, 1865. We really haven't come up. I mean, our national what we own right now in the national wealth has not changed and they kind of sprinkle that into the film here throughout. Is there also do you remember the film about Tyler Perry? Since I brought him up earlier, a family that prays. Well, I hated acrimony. The family that prays with character based. That's still one of my favorite one. Y'all remember that scene? Your son is a cartwright. And what happened right after that? I want to know what's what's what tops how what happened in that film or what happened in this film if Bill Street could talk. You know, you you're just going to have to see what I'm talking about. I don't want to spoil it for you. I feel like I've talked so much. But I mean, there's so much that you can relate to on a positive side, even on the negative side of black people in this world, in this country, that just get on my damn nerve that are just kind of like delusional and don't want to face facts. And that brings me to like holy rollers. Now, I'm a believer in God myself. And I put God first in everything that I do. Or I try to I try to. And if you're a holy warrior, a holy roller out there and if you don't know what that means, that's just somebody that's like literally 24 seven, seven days a week. God, God, God, this is this is this is Lord. I want to thank you for this eyelash or this eyebrow. I want to thank you for this. I want to thank you for this straw. I want to thank you for my shoestrings. I want to thank you for this. I want to thank you for that. You know, I mean, that's fine if you want to do that. But sometimes people take that too far to whether delusional case point. My example is I forgot the name of the film. It was a spiritual based film. But this was kind of trending or going around on social media, not so long ago to where it was a black woman preaching up on stage. And she said one of the dumbest things I've ever heard in my life. She was like, I am not a black woman. I am a Christian woman that happens to be black. That's just insane. That is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. I shouldn't even have to explain it. There are characters like this in this movie. And I just have to say I like the way that it was addressed. I mean, I just have to say that I won't say any more. You just have to, you know, you just have to see the film for yourself. But guys, this film I hear is a cinematic masterpiece. I absolutely loved it. I will be paying to go see this thing multiple times. I will be buying it when it comes out. I will be supporting this soundtrack, this score. I want to support this. Guys, please go see this movie. It is worth your time. If I had to rate if Bills Street could talk out of one out of ten, I'm going to give it a nine point five out of ten. Yes, a nine point five out of ten. But guys, that is just my opinion. Have you seen if Bills Street could talk or do you want to see it? Have I turned you on? Have I turned you off? Do you agree with me or do you disagree with me? Let me know down in the comment section below. Let's get this conversation going and keep it flowing. If you like this video, go ahead and give me the thumbs up. If you don't, that's fine. But you can still subscribe to my channel. You can also look me up on social media, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. All that good stuff. It's right there at the bottom of your screen. And I made it very easy by providing links to all that down in the description box below. But guys, I just want to thank you again for tuning into my opinion slash review for if Bills Street could talk directed and written by Barry Jenkins and off the novel of the same name by Mr. James Baldwin. And before you go, don't forget that my name is Brennan Keith Avery. And that's just my opinion. Peace.