By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 23:25:57 +0000

This was definitely not an easy watch for so many reasons and like you, T, I found myself getting up repeatedly because I had a hard time taking it in unless in very small doses. The thing that bothered me most was that we never get to see the comeuppance. I’m sure most anyone watching this film would want to see these sickos get what they deserve. Perhaps they can make a sequel as we follow these hatemongers to prison! I wouldn’t mind seeing some street justice!

By: Erika Lown

Erika Lown — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 04:07:35 +0000

Damn Taylor! This goes in the category of WTH did I just watch? A cherry pie with a swastika carved in the crust?! Nothing soft or quiet in that pie. It was not easy watching a movie such as this one. Side note: I haven’t felt this funky about a movie since watching In the Company of Men and I wanted to punch every man I saw when I walked out. I hate believing that a nice school teacher dressed in Ann Taylor threads could be a a racist. She was so nice in the first five minutes of the movie. I tried to get my husband to watch this movie but he flat out refused when I gave him the synopsis. I guess it cuts a little too close to home for him.
Truth is unconscious bias, racism, and prejudice exists in every person, regardless of race, gender, and class. This movie points that out with a group of women from different walks of life, coming together for one cause. Was it in a church? We get an idea of why each woman has come to the meeting and sure enough, their motives have personal sufferings attached. One woman suffering financially and fears losing her store, another feels she’s been overlooked for a promotion, another woman, an ex-convict who allied with a Aryan sect while in prison, and the meeting organizer, the teacher whose brother allegedly raped a women of Asian descent.
Within the first fifteen minutes, I knew as a woman of color, I would be in a hmm….’state’ while watching this movie. I tried to be analytical moving past my bias, race, social and cultural experiences. That was hard and yeah Taylor, at one point I just sat the wine bottle down next to my glass. I was going to need that whole bottle to get through this movie. I kept watching, but it was painful and so disconcerting. I mean you saw it… a group of women just break into your house and fu*k with your belongings, and attack you, like you just broke into their house. I just don’t know how to process this movie and get anything positive from it. I still want to believe race relations in this country are not hopeless, I love my friends and family members who are of all races, ethnicities, religions and genders. I’m also sad because part of me knows that maybe it isn’t so unrealistic if bystanders stay bystanders. I have postcards of Black men hanging from trees burnt to a crisp, while White families are eating lunch right next to him. Every time I hear a gay joke or a racial slur, I look around at the people who say nothing before I stand up and take the stand as ‘just another angry Black woman’. I have a child who is Black, Gay, and Queer. I can’t afford to be a bystander, I can’t afford to be soft and quiet.

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By: Lisa

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