Finally was able to watch Sinners (2025) and I gotta say...a lot of you are missing the point that Remmick fully bought into white supremacy and perpetuated it.
Like I kept seeing all these takes from people for months about how tragic Remmick is, and while he is tragic a lot of people seem to be missing the idea that vampirism in this movie symbolizes that kind of racism you hear a lot of white folks use to make themselves seem enlightened when they aren't: "We are all one race, the human race," and "I don't see color."
Not only do you hear characters say this kind of thing throughout the movie (Fellowship and Love) but Remmick's last words were emblematic of this: he said the Lords Prayer with Sammie. And while he loathed the colonizers who did this to his people, he said the words still give him comfort.
Hanging around a lot of American Irish and American Scottish folks you will hear them talk shit all day about the English and critique how American culture is too homogenized and meaningless. And yet, they don't ever confront it or try to dismantle those systems of oppression...bc they benefit from it. And even if they don't ever admit it they understand they have to play the game otherwise they risk falling back to where they're ancestors were just over a century ago: excluded and oppressed. They may hate what cultural homegenation and colonization has done, but they also like some of the comforts it affords them.
So, yeah...Remmick is tragic, but not necessarily bc he longs for a world before colonization...but bc he is the living embodiment of many modern white Americans today. The same white people who were not described as such a century ago. Before they were white they were Italian, Irish, Bulgarian, Slavic, Caucasian, Estonian, and so on and so forth. But many of these groups shed their unique cultural aspects (language, clothing, dance, music, food) in exchange to being part of a group that would give them power. All they had to do was give up everything that made them unique and gave them meaning and a real sense of place in the world.
Vampirism in this movie is an allegory for what cultural homogenization and colonization does. When people come back after being turned they have lost part of their humanity. They are no longer individuals with unique perspectives, wants, and desires, they are behilden to something different. Part of them is in there, but it is held down for the sake of a kind of power that is free of pain, consequence, or worries. All you have to do to maintain it is feast on the flesh of those less powerful than you.
If that isn't white supremacy, I don't know what is. It is my opinion that Remmick is a lot of things: a sad boi who just wants to see his people again, a victim of colonization, but he is also no better than the colonizers. He promises power and comfort and all you have to do is give up everything you are.
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