Janelle Monáe plays a dual role as a sexually abused slave and a present-day writer in Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz's horror thriller Antebellum. Read the review here:
covering the same themes with more brutality and much less nuance.
Each environment has its own cast of characters, with only Veronica and a mysterious woman named Elizabeth appearing in both. Elizabeth is one of the film’s many villains, but her particular brand of racism will be familiar to any Black person in America. In an early scene she tells the present-day Veronica how “articulate” she sounds and provides a second back-handed compliment by slyly admiring Veronica’s red lipstick during a FaceTime call.
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