The Book of Clarence

7.6 - An enigma. It takes risks everywhere: camera work, music, genre & art bending & blending, & most notably in its writing & biblical adaptation. Unsure if it’s more righteous or blasphemous. I grew up religious & now am not, so I connected with this in interesting ways.

“nigga what?”

An odd take on the bible. It's unclear what the final message is supposed to be as they kind of contradict themselves the entire film. They have scenes where they say atheism means you will never be loved by God or Jesus, then the next they literally show God or Jesus loving him

i’m

7.5/10:

An interesting take on the influence of Jesus from a different perspective.full of jokes that don’t take away from the message and was a great insight on religion itself

At the start of this there’s lots of fun comedy, the style & dialogue work given the setting, most of which has a fun rhythm to it. It takes its time & though the underlying pinning of satire on how race is seen in biblical stories is not lost on me, it doesn’t take it in any…