![]() Devil in a Blue Dress takes Easy on a journey through Black Los Angeles and into the shadows of the city’s white aristocracy, showing how much race informs the ways the power brokers play their hands.īased on Walter Mosley’s 1990 novel, Devil in a Blue Dress is told through the eyes of people whose perspectives are usually ignored. ![]() Out of work and needing to pay his mortgage, he finds those barriers magnified when he is tasked with locating Daphne Monet (Jennifer Beals), a woman who appears to be white, enjoys “jazz, pigs’ feet, and dark meat,” and used to be engaged to former mayoral candidate Todd Carter (Terry Kinney). ![]() Throughout Devil in a Blue Dress, Carl Franklin’s sharp 1995 noir thriller, Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins (Denzel Washington) is confronted with the boundaries he must respect as a Black man in 1948 Los Angeles, as he tries to build a life for himself after serving in World War II. America is a dream seller that has gone out of its way to show Black people in particular that they can chase the carrot should they choose, but it will be to no avail. Not everyone is afforded equal rights or opportunity-and that’s by design. The American dream has always been a spectacular lie. ![]()
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