Tongues Untied Analysis

In the film, “Tongues Untied,” by Marlon Riggs in 1989, was more of an artistic style film instead of a documentary film. The artistic style of the film was able to give the audience a more deeper meaning, to the film. The transition from vigorous repetition of sayings, rap expression, snaps, dances and etc express the use of communication physically than verbally. In the film, it shows use the basic lesson of snap diverettes. Snaps can be read, punctuate, and is more than just noise, it represent a statement. The heartbeat sound and body movement was used to represent life and that they are human beings. Body images of bare black skin seem like an art sculptor that is observe in many dimension. There is more than one way of see something that we are blind to see.
The anger and hurt when a person is judge by their race and gender. In the film, a jeweler refused to let a black person enter their store because the person was black, male, and perceived as thieves. A person should not be judge by their appearances, anger is something that is expressed but being hurt is not given a voice that will build up inside of a person. “there are very real differences between us of race, age, and sex. But it is not those differences

There are heterosexual people who still refer others as punk, homo, faggot, and freak because they were different. In the film, Marlon Riggs stated, “The blacks hated me, because they assumed my class status made me uppity, assumed my silence as superiority.” Even if you are part of a category, it doesn’t always mean that you would be treated the same. There are people who are shy, confused, afraid and alone. Marlon Riggs felt cornered by identities that he never wanted to claim. He ran to escape from the world that discriminate others, trapped inside where he felt safe. There are people who still feel that way and that is what they do to reassure