Debut narrative film from LangstonCruise is a heavily autobiographical story that draws upon his time as a Black gay man in Marine boot camp.
The point of a uniform is to make everyone the same. But a few feet of cloth cannot change the inner nature of an individual. When filmmaker Elegance Bratton joined the Marine Corps, he was asking himself one question:"How am I supposed to get by in the skin that I'm in?", the debut narrative feature from the documentarian behind. Its heavily autobiographical story draws upon his time as a Black gay man in Marine boot camp, and how that experience changed his life forever.
Worst of all, he was lacking not just the support system but the social knowledge base to stop his accelerating slide. Being Black and gay had lead to him being excluded from"many of the things that mean do. When you're not invited to be on the team, and you're not invited to fix the car, you're missing out on really important socializing time during which men pass opportunities to each other.
The filmmaker recalled,"By the time I arrived on the doorstep of boot camp, I thought I was pretty much worthless, that my life had no value, meaning, or purpose. And I was fortunate enough to have someone tell me that was a lie. That, in fact, my life wasn't worthless, because I had a responsibility to protect the Marine to my left and my right.
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