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I Am Not Your Negro

2016 · 93 min · Director: Raoul Peck ★ IMDb 7.9 · 25,028 ratings

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In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, "Remember This House." The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin's death in 1987, he left behind only 30 completed pages of this manuscript. Filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished.

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I Am Not Your Negro (2016) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Empathy 30%, Sadness 25%, Inspiration 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

  1. Anger15%
  2. Awe10%

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The strongest emotional signals are Empathy, Sadness, Inspiration. Genres: History, Documentary. AI estimate.

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Consider this title if you are looking for Empathy, Sadness and Inspiration. Its IMDb rating of 7.9/10 suggests a generally positive audience reception. For these leading emotions, its Feel Score is 74/100.

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Emotional journey

AI · from subtitles
  • Sadness
  • Empathy
  • Disturbing

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No dominant emotion

Dominant emotion: Sadness

Dominant emotion: Empathy

Dominant emotion: Disturbing

Dominant emotion: Tension

Dominant emotion: Hope

Sadness
Empathy
Disturbing
Emotional journey Emotional intensity over the film’s runtime, from quieter to stronger on a fixed 0–1 scale. Hatched intervals have insufficient subtitle evidence. The table provides the values.
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Dominant emotion

Intensity dips around 3 %, then dips around 28 %, then peaks around 88 %.Ending hidden

Emotional journey
%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensitySadnessEmpathyDisturbing
2.5 %≈ 2′Sadness56 %53 %48 %35 %
7.5 %≈ 7′Sadness61 %55 %54 %40 %
12.5 %≈ 12′Empathy59 %45 %50 %43 %
17.5 %≈ 16′Disturbing61 %40 %49 %45 %
22.5 %≈ 21′Empathy58 %39 %51 %38 %
27.5 %≈ 26′Tension56 %36 %49 %38 %
32.5 %≈ 30′Tension60 %41 %51 %46 %
37.5 %≈ 35′Empathy67 %54 %61 %55 %
42.5 %≈ 40′Sadness73 %63 %66 %63 %
47.5 %≈ 44′Empathy70 %53 %57 %60 %
52.5 %≈ 49′Disturbing66 %43 %50 %54 %
57.5 %≈ 53′Empathy58 %39 %50 %41 %
62.5 %≈ 58′Empathy57 %43 %54 %40 %
67.5 %≈ 63′Sadness67 %55 %57 %54 %
72.5 %≈ 67′Disturbing69 %50 %54 %56 %
77.5 %≈ 72′Tension67 %44 %53 %53 %
82.5 %≈ 77′Sadness73 %59 %61 %54 %
87.5 %≈ 81′Sadness74 %65 %66 %51 %
92.5 %≈ 86′Hope68 %50 %60 %49 %
97.5 %≈ 91′Empathy63 %38 %55 %50 %
Man in a hole

Rags to riches: The emotional tone rises from negative to positive.

Riches to rags: The emotional tone falls from positive to negative.

Man in a hole: The tone falls, then recovers.

Icarus: The tone rises, then falls.

Cinderella: The tone rises, falls, then rises again.

Oedipus: The tone falls, rises, then falls again.

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Cast

JB
James Baldwin

JB
James Baldwin

Self (archive footage)

ML
Martin Luther King

ML
Martin Luther King Jr.

Self (archive footage)

MX
Malcolm X

Self (archive footage)

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Self (archive footage)

Billy Dee Williams

Self (archive footage)

Rod Steiger

Self (archive footage)

Details

Directed by
Raoul Peck
Written by
Raoul Peck, James Baldwin, James Baldwin
Type
Movies
Released
2016
Runtime
93 min
Country
France, United States, Belgium, Switzerland
Ratings
★ IMDb 7.9 · 25,028 ratings
Feels mostly
Empathy
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