Coogler and cowriter Joe Robert Cole's approach is refreshing, contemporary, and resonant for the way they
avoid long exposés on Black diasporic relationships, instead dramatizing the after - effect and affects
of the atomization
of the Black diaspora: the entanglement
of shame and envy; the
feelings of abandonment; and the aggrieved sense
of entitlement, rage, and incomprehension that's settled and rendered dialogue tortuous, if not completely impossible.