Justin Simien's horror comedy 'Bad Hair,' starring Vanessa Williams and newcomer Elle Lorraine, adds layers to its race-based workplace discrimination tale.
is winking social commentary as high-concept horror comedy, both holding a mirror to society and offering an escape valve. Genre films have always served an important function as a place to traffic in topics that would otherwise be taboo, and Simien uses the opportunity to take aim at the white European beauty standards that dominate Western ideology.
The milieu of Culture is one of conscious ’80s hip-hop, featuring VJs like Brooke-Lynn and Sista Soul who sport braids and natural hair and extol Afrocentric organic living. But when new management comes in, spearheaded by floppy-haired ’80s monster Grant and “first Black supermodel” Zora , Culture quickly pivots to new talent and a new image, embodied by mononymic pop/R&B diva Sandra , who shakes her long, shaggy mane almost harder than she shakes her hips in her music videos.
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