.JanelleMonae knows her new movie, 'Antebellum,' will 'trigger' some people. 'I think that it will be a mirror and serve as a real reminder of what has happened and what our ancestors had to endure.'
Lionsgateis meticulously framed and gorgeously lit for optimum cinematic appeal. That so many of those shots are of Black bodies being beaten and lynched, hung and raped and otherwise brutalized is a fact that has and will prove divisive among viewers.Janelle Monáe
"This will trigger in the same way that I struggled when I saw Sandra Bland, when I saw Mike Brown, when we saw George Floyd, when we heard about Breonna Taylor," Monáe says."Man, I struggle with, 'Should I post this?' Because it is triggering for me as a Black person. So, I think with this film -- and this is just a film. A lot of people are really living that reality, but this is a film -- I think this will trigger us. I think it will also trigger white folks.
"Unfortunately, a very specific, virulent brand of white person has convinced themselves of this false nobility of the country's history and specifically the Antebellum South," notes Bush. It can be seen in the defense of Civil War reenactments as honoring one's history or in raising the Confederate flag as an act of tradition.
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