Sight & Sound: the May 2021 issue Barry Jenkins tells us about reclaiming and rebuilding Americaâs history of slavery in The Underground Railroad. Plus Promising Young Woman and the virgin/whore trope, Aubrey Plaza on Black Bear, Martin Scorseseâs discovery of Joe Pesci, Dea Kulumbegashviliâs Beginning, and a classic Satyajit Ray interview. 5 April 2021 Sight & Sound May 2021 issue No movie or television show can really speak to what it must have been like to have been my ancestors. But it doesnât mean we canât try. Barry Jenkins Barry Jenkinsâs adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Underground Railroad is his first foray into television, a 10-hour monument to Americaâs history of slavery and its modern day reverberations. As Devika Girish poignantly puts it in our cover feature, the series âgives thick, viscous life to stories that, while spinning a fantastical yarn, also serve to fill an absence in our cultural and cinematic record.â