Lamar Johnson and Kiana Madeira take us back in time to experience Black struggle and joy
BY RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI
Brother, Toronto’s answer to movies like Boyz N The Hood and Moonlight, opens with two siblings daring to climb a hydro tower. It’s a symbolic and emotionally loaded sequence that recurs throughout the movie, featuring two Black boys at a site of danger trying to rise above it all. And it hits especially hard for anyone from Scarborough, where David Chariandy’s novel and Clement Virgo’s movie adaptation is set.
The hydro corridor is the east end’s connective tissue, an intimate space cutting across the geographic range and class and ethnic diversity from the Rouge to Wexford Park. It’s about as elemental a representation of Scarborough as you can get.
And it wasn’t even shot in Scarborough.
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