Washington reduces the entire debate about who can direct what to a single sensory memory: do you know what a hot comb hitting hair on a Sunday morning smells like? It's a deliberately specific, embodied benchmark — not a credential, not a skin tone, but a shared cultural imprint. The test is whether the director carries the sensory world of the characters, not whether they look like them.
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