Strong Island is a deeply personal movie, crafted with an abundance of care with family photos complete with fingers adjusting them. More than anything else, it is a personal journey. This is not for us. We, in the audience, are on the outside looking in, observing and feeling the pain that the Ford family experienced. It is an introspective movie. Yance Ford tries to understand the circumstances surrounding the death of her brother. The movie walks toward something bigger, trying to contextualize the Fords' story as a story that could have happened to any African American family. While I understand that sentiment, I think Ford very rightly stops just short of that. This is too personal of a story. And it is owned by the Ford family. It haunts them but they confront it.
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