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Mr. GREG ARAKI (Filmmaker): Everything is so nuanced, and all the characters, including the coach and including the johns that Neil sleeps with as a young male prostitute, they're seen as these sort of flawed human beings, but they're all given a humanity and a depth, that they're not just these black and white kind of cardboard bad boys and good guys.
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I'm mean, I'm not a fan of the comments because I think they move us away from the fact that people have a right to return to New Orleans, not because they're black and that it's a God-ordained space for a black city.
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But it's not something where they're doing it to copy black American culture.
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But you sacrifice a bit with 16:9 because they force traditional programming into a pillarbox format, with black bars on both sides--and if you're not careful, the bar pattern can burn itself into the screen.
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