imani davis

The acting was decent but I thought the director wrapped everything up pretty well. Pretty good and meets expectations for the genre that it’s in. I don’t see why critics came down so hard on it. I think they were overly critical because of who her father is. This was an excellent debut for her and hope to see more from Dakota in this genre.

Don’t read the reviews from places like the Washington Post. It was a movie made for black people so there are tons of fun inside jokes amongst us that is clearly cultural satire. It’s funny, light hearted, satirical, and didn’t lose its intentional message. Of course code switching, making white people comfortable, nod to the harms of black elitism (talented tenth theory), white privilege, etc. There was no extreme black trauma porn. No watching black bodies shot in the street, hanging from a rope, strung out, abandoned or neglected. Nothing that white people (these white reviewers/ “intellectuals”) want to see when they watch movies in which the lead is black. If it was meant to be provocative or edgy, meh. I don’t think it was meant to be An American Fiction or A Raisin in the Sun. It was supposed to be a thought provoking concept but comedic. I think a lot of audiences were so excited about the concept, they forgot to acknowledge (or didn’t know to acknowledge because it’s not their lived experience) that this is a satire about AN EVERY DAY EXPERIENCE for black people these last 400 something odd years. Not a specific moment in history or time. So it followed an everyday guy, at his everyday job, and added magical realism. SEE IT 😁. It was for us and it’s funny

It was disgusting. Perverted. given how “Bella” came to be developmentally delayed was crass at best. I was imprisoned for 2 hours and 20 minutes. Wasted 12 bucks