It's hard to distinguish if The Last Black Man in SF is a fairy tale based in reality, or reality based upon a fairy tale. The movie starts out with some delightful visuals before settling down to its basic story line which tangentially includes a whole lot of what is and has been going down in San Francisco. The main characters are far from the portrayals of young Black men you're used to seeing on the big screen, which in and of itself makes interesting viewing.
The editing could have been tighter, and towards the end, the movie seemed as if it didn't quite know when to end- but in all fairness, that simply could have been because any sense of ventilation was absent in our theater, the air becoming increasingly hot, stagnant and oppressive, to the point I began anticipating a possible medical emergency situation (perhaps my own) any second...
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