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SUBLIME CINEMA #408 - THE WIRE

Okay, so the Wire is not a film, but it’s not really like anything else either. Comparing this to any other series is pointless, it stands alone as something completely removed from film or TV or theater or documentary; it is art at the highest level that aspires to something greater than art. You feel the creators here are going beyond commenting and portraying, and instead are exposing something fundamental about America that needed to be exposed, and fighting against a reluctant acknowledgement that change might be futile.

Shot on textural 35mm, and grim as a reaper, with writing and acting that was more deserving of a Pulitzer than a couple of unwon Emmy nominations, it showed us a part of America that many Americans either don’t know about, or choose not to know anything about.

I wanted to post this in memory of Michael K Williams, whose role of Omar now resonates more than ever; his character was mythical in the show and he is forever immortalized here.