R. Raheim Walker

Listen! 🤣 Now if you’re not a fan of something that will speak to you about the visceral UGLINESS in the world…this is not the movie for you. If you don’t understand symbolism, you simply will be dismayed. If new art styles from done before themes turn you off, just don’t watch because…yeah…you will not be entertained. I loved the ending! Its a doozy! 🤣 The whole thing was a ride for sure and the cast did not disappoint! For real though. Loving yourself just as you are seems to be the overarching theme. How much of our joy do we rob from ourselves by living life any other way? A lot of what the movie depicts finds its truth in the reality that is the world we have collectively made. From the “pretty tax” to how we fawn over those who have something we want to how we mistreat each other when the exterior is aghast and repugnant in our eyes without ANYTHING we desire…the human race has got to do better. Anything that reminds me of the 80s style of effects is a welcomed change from CGI. Don’t get me wrong. I love that as well but there’s something about the prosthetics style sci-fi that should not ever be axed off. The movie was part horrifying, part grotesque, part funny and of course the science fiction was on go mode. The music, lighting, use of color and the camera giving me an aspect of soap opera was a chef’s kiss move. Give me more like this!!!! What a pretty little tale wrapped up in such a deceptively rancid telling! Loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’ll let the critics give their flowing words and apt dissections of a simple truth: Jesus is King and Lord of all! 😉 Lee Daniels, thank you for an accurate depiction of the Power resting in that Mightily Magnificent Name Above ALL Other Names! Thank you for the illustration; speaking to a sin sick world of what accurately happens to the accuser when the Holy Spirit is sought. When He tells them to stop they go no more! Evil spirits tremble in His Awesome Presence! When we invoke that Precious Name as a Spirit-filled believer, demons have no choice but to flee! We have no power on our own…Yet in our weakness His Power and Strength are made manifest! I enjoyed the spot on truth telling of this movie called The Deliverance, so strategically and rightfully named. ❤️

The issues with the movie for me: 1. Totally Whitewashed. However, I have to also believe that the explanation for Ham is what is being excised given what a certain persuasion of people have believed. Not really too bad a proposition. I’d still take the continuity over the latter. But no color? Anywhere else? I guess Adam and Eve were…nvm. 2. He had 3 sons, all of which were grown with wives. Yet, somehow that too did not matter. Other than that, it was an okay movie. The grittiness was striking for present day. It conveyed the changing nature of humanity and its story telling while keeping loosely to what is stated biblically. If you are expecting an exact rendition, go to church or read yuh B.I.B.L.E. The point was to show people have the ability to get it wrong; it’s our nature. But God still wins in every way no matter our personal hangups. Even the fallen angels were forgiven when they asked after helping produce God’s Will before and after disobedience (Noah, 2014). His redemptive power and judgement of sin/evilness were present. I also enjoyed marrying the idea that God caused the Big Bang, which set everything into motion. Explaining the days looked to me to be several millennia, not just 24 hour periods. Earth and science confirm that part and not as an all or nothing approach.

The movie was definitely on point for me. The metaphorical ghost is literally RACISM. It may change in appearance over time yet still remain perfectly enshrined throughout all institutions within the U.S. We saw 2.5 black perspectives. Yes, colorism just so subtly and, at other times, blatantly graces the screen. Kinda scary how some of us walk around like Liv RIGHT NOW! Half in half out, never really knowing if they kin or will sell you out. Again, even that can be a derivative of the larger issue of RACISM in America. Each of the ladies shared separate stories but of the same spirit - the EFFECT of RACISM. Poor Jasmine. 😔 So many of us are still gripped in its clutches. That baby was intelligent. While I do not believe her experience served her well in the classroom scene with ole Liv, I saw whiteness again valued more than a black perspective. I also got that sense in the cafeteria scene, which again fits the narrative in describing this New Babylon. It became clear that the symbolism is a naturally recurring theme. Regardless of the reasoning or logic, Jasmine was fine in her assertions and deserved better from her kind. I wanted to punch Liv and that lunch lady in the throat soooo so bad! You get a throat punch! You get a throat punch! And you get another one! I remained triggered throughout the ENTIRE film. The microaggressions. The mICroAgGresSIonS! By the end, I was so exhausted for literally wanting to come through my television screen! However, it is a clear representation of what it is like being in a country that does not love all of US. It is strikingly true to form in describing the sheer frustration and panic within a system that is so evidently hellbent on destroying people of color. All the clues are there, yet RACISM remains. Clever movies like this demonstrate it. Actions, in reality, have not substantially followed.