Spoilers (although not really)

As well as attempting the 100 cinema club trip this year we are aiming to get all the Oscar films too, including all the actors too, so here i am watching Rustin on Netflix, to get Colman Domingo ticked off the list which everyone says is such a honest performance.

Oh damn its an honest performance. There have been some best actor winners in a few years who have won because of things, but this ahhhhhhhh. I felt for him. It all so hurt to be silenced for being black, gay & someone who wanted to speak the truth. That must have been so painful for the man in real life. Because i was sitting here going ahhhhhhhhhh watching it. I was so captivated by it all & really wanted to the march to be a success.

I couldnt look at Chris Rock, im sorry i couldnt. I get hes an actor, but hearing that cheerful voice trying to be so serious was actually hard to do. It took it out of being a film if that made sense. This is why i often sit there & go sometimes names arent needed. Because the story &the script was good enough but when he appeared i was like hand on its Chris Rock. it threw me a little bit.
That being said when Jeffrey Wright turned up to ruffle some feathers in his 3 scenes, he was good & believable.

This film has Martin Luther King in it & it could have very easily gone down the whole oh this is a film all about him as well, but he appears when he is needed to. Its nice & refreshing not to see him all the time in this film & yes it does end with part of the speech & the March but that was Rustin’s goal. To get his message across & to get people to hear them speak & know they had a voice. It was very powerful, but do you want to know what the most powerful scene of the film was, its the end of the March when hes being praised & congratulated & instead he goes & starts to clean up the mess & put things back to how they were because he knew he place to the rest of the world & its the right thing to do. I welled up a bit at that.

So many of the meeting they had in this film were good. Long speeches & table talks didnt feel drawn out or a waste of time, they just worked & felt organic & an actual conversation. Not acted out. Its hard to do that sometimes too.

Colman is the first male to be openly gay (i hate that phrase by the way) & be nominated for playing a gay character. I had no idea about that. But his little speech about finding love & his life is brilliant in the film. I love it. & its so bad how that bar & the people in it & that priest were all shamed. No no no that should never happen ever, makes me feel sick that this was & (for some) still is sad that they have to hide their sexuality, afraid of not being accepted.

When no one turns up to start with for the March i was like hang on a fuck ton of people do dont go changing history movie please. Thank god they didnt.

Those Washington officials were evil bastard. They really didnt want o give him an hour let a lone an afternoon or day. I know that people have rules but they abused their power & they could seriously jog on & fuck off. & then at the end suddenly they wanted a conversation. No mate you had your chance, now fuck off. you had the chance to say you bit & you squandered it.

It was really well written. Considering they had a lot to take from, they still had to get the rest of it right & spot on & i was engaged in the story & script throughout. Which is always good when its a real life story you can google before or after the film to see what they got right or wrong. It was gripping.

The dark lighting in moments of sorrow were good & then the sun coming out for a bit of light when things went well, that wasnt missed by movie. I liked that alot.

This is a good biopic, which did risk being highjacked by MLK however Colman is so commanding & also vulnerable in his role that it never even really gets near it. This is well worth a watch people. IT will really make you think when you get to the end of it.