Description: david shields marshawn lynch a history
“ Lynch feels like the culmination of Shields’s career. Lynch is loosely chronological, yet it’s propelled by a free-associative rhythm that the viewer slowly settles into. . . Relying on found footage gives Lynch an aura of unscripted authenticity. . . . Shields’s drifting approach allows him to make persuasive and even moving arguments that proceed by accumulation and association rather than by simple exposition. . . . edited together from a dizzying range of sources. . . . Lynch requires you to m
“To paraphrase its namesake subject, watching Lynch: A History feels like running through the motherfucking face of the traumas of both Black America and the Seattle Seahawks over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. Shields connects the journey of a famously reticent Lynch to the long history of black activism in Oakland and our modern day whitelash and the emergence of Trump. . . . However, just as importantly, the film does not linger in the necropolitical imagery of black death;
“Lynch is a fierce civil rights activist, and he does all of his talking by saying nothing at all. That is Lynch on the field and with the media. He is a force—a player who changed the way black men talk to the media. The film is nicely edited together, and rather than simply being a documentary—the subject, of course, would not play very nicely for a talking heads style approach—it becomes an accessible montage of Lynch’s career as an athlete and civil rights activist in modern football. A surefire hit fo