[Just don’t]
Sep. 19th, 2020 09:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
roaming_kate23I paid $20 to watch Antebellum. Well, that is 2 hours(and $20)I am never going to get back.
Is this the movie-given what is going on the world(not talking about Miss ‘Rona here either) we needed? Short answer? NO.
Imma spoil this movie and I don’t care if I get shit for it.
First of all,I knew the twist of the movie going in.Yeah.Imma spoiler heaux. Always have been and always will be.But if you don’t know-here it is:When the movie starts you think that maybe it is a time traveling thing, but then the twist happens and you’re like “WTF”.There are hints-Janelle Monae’s character is staying in the Jefferson suite at her hotel(we all know why that’s significant, right?)and strange interactions with white characters(Gabourey Sidibe’s character calls a white character “Becky” which honestly made me LOL)
Basically, to explain things:Janelle Monae’s character has been kidnapped and is on what is basically Westworld for MAGA hat(almost wrote “hate”,LOL) wearers-a plantation. We don’t know that until the twist happens though, as I said. The slavery part of it is fucking brutal-I will give this to the filmmakers-they did their research on what went on on plantations-even taking it it to extremes.
Could something like this happen?No.Because it would get found out pretty quickly.You think the BLM protests we’ve had this year are bad? If people discovered that something like what was happening in Antebellum existed...it would NOT be pretty and that’s putting it mildly. But because of the current political climate...
Now, Antebellum has been called a horror movie.I don’t agree with that.A thriller, for sure(especially the set up for how Janelle Monae’s character Veronica is kidnapped.)
Is this the movie-given what is going on the world(not talking about Miss ‘Rona here either) we needed? Short answer? NO.
Imma spoil this movie and I don’t care if I get shit for it.
First of all,I knew the twist of the movie going in.Yeah.Imma spoiler heaux. Always have been and always will be.But if you don’t know-here it is:When the movie starts you think that maybe it is a time traveling thing, but then the twist happens and you’re like “WTF”.There are hints-Janelle Monae’s character is staying in the Jefferson suite at her hotel(we all know why that’s significant, right?)and strange interactions with white characters(Gabourey Sidibe’s character calls a white character “Becky” which honestly made me LOL)
Basically, to explain things:Janelle Monae’s character has been kidnapped and is on what is basically Westworld for MAGA hat(almost wrote “hate”,LOL) wearers-a plantation. We don’t know that until the twist happens though, as I said. The slavery part of it is fucking brutal-I will give this to the filmmakers-they did their research on what went on on plantations-even taking it it to extremes.
Could something like this happen?No.Because it would get found out pretty quickly.You think the BLM protests we’ve had this year are bad? If people discovered that something like what was happening in Antebellum existed...it would NOT be pretty and that’s putting it mildly. But because of the current political climate...
Now, Antebellum has been called a horror movie.I don’t agree with that.A thriller, for sure(especially the set up for how Janelle Monae’s character Veronica is kidnapped.)
