{"id":2260072,"date":"2026-01-31T18:31:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T18:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2260072"},"modified":"2026-01-31T18:31:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T18:31:22","slug":"if-i-go-will-they-miss-me-review-talent-to-watch-walter-thompson-hernandez-weaves-a-lyrical-portrait-of-a-boy-on-the-brink-of-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/if-i-go-will-they-miss-me-review-talent-to-watch-walter-thompson-hernandez-weaves-a-lyrical-portrait-of-a-boy-on-the-brink-of-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018If I Go Will They Miss Me\u2019 Review: Talent-to-Watch Walter Thompson-Hern\u00e1ndez Weaves a Lyrical Portrait of a Boy on the Brink of Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Even the most inspirational films about growing up in the inner-city have a tendency to look down on their subjects, portraying them as characters to be rescued or redeemed. But in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm11233528\/\">Walter Thompson-Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a>\u2019s one-of-a-kind <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1083053\/\">Sundance<\/a> discovery \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt39151344\/\">If I Go Will They Miss Me<\/a>,\u201d the filmmaker \u2014 and his largely untrained (and by extension authentic) ensemble \u2014 spend most of their time looking up to the skies, where passing airplanes represent the world beyond Los Angeles\u2019 working-class Watts neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>That perspective, which rhymes with the low-angle view of boys jumping between the roofs of neighboring apartment buildings in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0122344\/\">Charles Burnett<\/a>\u2019s street-level classic \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0076263\/\">Killer of Sheep<\/a>,\u201d rejects the concerned but condescending narrative of films in which the forces of crime, drugs, gangs and poverty pull Black boys down. Instead, Thompson-Hern\u00e1ndez gives them wings. Aiming to establish a new idiom to represent the community and conditions in which he was raised, the journalist-turned-director&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even the most inspirational films about growing up in the inner-city have a tendency to look down on their subjects, portraying them as characters to be rescued or redeemed. 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