A single mother and her family are haunted by malevolent spirits in the 'Precious' director's latest feature, co-starring Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and Mo'Nique.
is, on the one hand, a typical and considered domestic drama about a matriarch balancing family obligations, alcoholism and a tempestuous relationship with her mother . On the other hand, it represents the director’s foray into the supernatural. Here, Daniels, the director of slushy films like, digs into hauntings and, from them, extracts lessons in faith.
Daniels, working from a screenplay written by David Coggeshall and Elijah Bynum, takes time before introducing any haunting. The early half ofsketches in the life of this family as a way to bolster viewer investment. While Ebony struggles to control her temper, Alberta manages her cancer with weekly chemotherapy sessions. Nate grapples with local bullies, Andre finds company in solitude and Shante wonders when their father will return home.
The direction here is confident and the scenes are anchored by intimate shots of each family member. Most of the detailing happens within Ebony and Alberta’s relationship. Here, Daniels explores, again in broad but not insufficient strokes, the pressures and tensions between a biracial daughter and her white mother. In the margins of this family’s life stands Cynthia , a case worker from the Child Protective Services tasked with investigating whether Ebony abuses her kids.
She does, and Daniels presents these moments not as sensationalistic transgressions but the disturbing result of generations of trauma. Before Alberta found Jesus, she also abused Ebony. Day, who worked with Daniels on. She doesn’t sand down Ebony’s rougher edges with melodramatic physicality but instead explores her coarseness, finding soft filaments within the single mother’s bristly temperament.
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