Up and coming filmmaker Mariama Diallo's latest film on Amazon is a freaky tale about Black women stuck in Hell.
he’s adept at depicting how jarringly embedded racism is in basically everything and its subtle way of taking on various forms of abuse. In Diallo’s work,
the interactions of each of these women takes viewers on a Peele-esque rollercoaster ride that comes to a soft landing.intricately weaves in the nagging microagressions that Diallo drew from in her real-life experience attending Yale as a Black freshman. Diallo, like Hall’s Gail, wasa former professor who happened to be a white man, during her Yale tenure.
explosive, but ultimately whimper away without much resolve. We’re invested in Jasmine’s plight after witnessing her run-ins with howling creatures of the night and other not so subtle signs that she’s being chased, but we never find out who or what is chasing her. And Liv’s entire biracial plot-point,the more layered aspects of race and colorism, could’ve been explored on a much deeper level rather than simply reiterating much of what we already know about the biracial experience.
Viewers get the gist of how these three Black women are constantly being haunted by the ghosts of the past and the chaos of the present, but it feels like we’re not being exposed to anything new beyond the main bullet points we’re accustomed to seeing in movies of this kind. Diallo’s messaging ultimately doesn’t feel as fresh and boundary-breaking as it could, which unfortunately dilutes the full effect. The build-up is intense and constant,
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