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I saw Sinners last night with my friend L. at The Bourse, and wow wow wow.

Generic description: set in the Mississippi Delta in the 1930s, the story revolves around a pair of twins (both played by Michael B. Jordan) returning home from Chicago to open a juke joint in an old, empty sawmill with an ominous stain on the floor. Their young cousin, whose preacher father tells him playing the blues is unholy, is going to perform there for opening night. Things don't go well, which is clear from the opening scene, one day after the rest of the movie.

The music in this movie is absolutely sublime and there's some great dancing as well. Also, this is a dark fantasy/horror movie, so expect gore.

It was filmed in Louisiana. Donaldsonville in Ascension Parish stood in for the Mississippi town in the midst of cotton plantations, and they also did some filming in Bogalusa.

Spoilers below the cut.

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Yes, the new year of Dracula Daily has begun and I am still finishing up. Onwards!

October 11:
Mina says, "I know that all that brave earnest men can do for a poor weak woman, whose soul perhaps is lost—no, no, not yet, but is at any rate at stake—you will do. But you must remember that I am not as you are. There is a poison in my blood, in my soul, which may destroy me; which must destroy me, unless some relief comes to us."

It is interesting to me that it's two women who are attacked by Dracula and transformed. Is this partly because the author thinks women dying is more poignant, or because the author thinks women are weaker and thus more likely to either succumb or to become victims? Or some degree of both? Because otherwise, Mina is a strong character, very proactive. We don't know anything about Renfield prior to his enslavement (?) by Dracula; is there an implication he had a mental illness already?

"You must promise me, one and all—even you, my beloved husband—that, should the time come, you will kill me. I mean, this is the sign of a badass character. Mina, you are a BAMF.

This whole day's section absolutely revels in Victorian literary sentiment.

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