"In the defining scene of Sinners, Sammie belts the tune at a juke joint as a brief history of Black music unfurls around him. Composed of five different shots-it was called 'The Surreal Montage' during filming-the execution is impressive: The camera traverses the space, as Sammie's voice attracts the ghosts of B-boys, DJs, tribal dancers, guitarists, and ultimately, the evil spirits lurking on the fringes."
"Then Ryan Coogler says fuck it and throws everything at the wall with a sequence that's dazzlingly complex, colorful, overwrought, restless, and even a little hackneyed-which is to say, it's quintessential Coogler."
"Caton's excited about the Oscars, but with his Sinners' chapter closing, he seems even more thrilled to finally get into his recording career, which he put on pause for a couple years after Coogler recruited him for his debut acting role."
Miles Caton, 21, stars in Ryan Coogler's Southern gothic-horror film Sinners, which received 16 Oscar nominations. Caton plays Sammie Moore, a preacher's son with a gift for blues music, in a story centered on Michael B. Jordan's twin characters. The film's defining scene features Caton performing the Oscar-nominated song 'I Lied To You,' composed by Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Göransson. This elaborate five-shot sequence, called 'The Surreal Montage,' depicts Sammie singing at a juke joint while ghosts of musicians and dancers appear around him. The scene represents a tonal shift from the film's slower first half. Caton paused his music career to act in the film and now looks forward to resuming his recording work.
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