I must be the only idiot who really thought she was going to get help at the end. 😂😂😂 I also thought she was hallucinating until the two kids showed up to the hotel.
I did enjoy this film, but I do agree that I wish the movie would’ve just started with not knowing anything about Cheryl’s past. I felt so bad for Ian lol he really didn’t know anything and he was the one who got it the worst. Would’ve been great to have more violence at the end to really ramp it up. When the delivery man came through I was expecting Cheryl to pass him a note to call the police. Never guessed that she was going to run away from her problems again.
"Well"damn I guess some people are not meant to be parents and I guess sometimes they figure out that shit way too late tragically for everybody especially the kids
I thought the title was a play on words as in stray hairs that often expose our true hair texture and strays as in a person that wanders or roams from a route or path
She's kinda like the dad who goes out for the milk or pack of cigarettes. They always make more kids and they often dont have the courage to face the children/women they've wronged. ..its just more trippy because its a woman.
Neve was giving me a bit of a Victoria Beckham vibe..Dion looked the same age as Neve to me, it was throwing me off. The story was like when your past comes back to haunt you and instead of making amends and doing better you just double down rinse and repeat your mistakes. The movie was pretty good, story and acting-wise.
I am so glad you reviewed this! I really liked this movie and I did watch it alone so it’s nice to hear some thoughts on it. I loved the ending, the four kids standing there in shock.
Many men run from their families for various reasons . It’s kind of romanticized. “ I had wife and kids in Baltimore jack…went out for a ride and never went back… like a river that don’t know where is flowin I took a wrong turn and I just kept goin.” This case the person seems to want to be a complete different person.
Just finished this movie moments ago and had to know what you think! This movie did NOT go where I thought it would go and I was pleasantly surprised as well. Although the movie isn’t perfect, the TENSION in this movie was high. Great review; sorry Nick wasn’t there. Hope to see you both soon doing reviews together🥰
Very relative to Charles W. Chesnutt 's 1898 short story The Wife of His Youth, as far as colorism within the diaspora and the past life of the protagonist
Got halfway through this movie on Saturday, then stopped and came looking for a review from you guys. Now that you have posted one, I can go back and finish the movie. 😏😁
Okay, Joseph Boo, I am going to sneak in and thumbs-up , then sneak out. I want to watch this one because the trailer didn't give much away so I am excited and intrigued. I will be back afterwards to hear my fav chit-chat with my wine 🍷later 🤗
Great review Joseph! I saw the trailer for this and it looked interesting. It sort of reminded me of the movie “Passing” when I saw the actress looking bothered or afraid that her cover was blown.
I watched it two days ago and immediately went to your channel and was upset I didn't see any review lol. Glad you decided to review this 😊 You need to review the show, Behind Her Eyes. It was wild lol
There was a episode on the show called The Locater a bi racial girl was looking for her mom that left her and her brother with there dads side of family for summer and never came back! We she was located she didn’t want nothing to do with her kids and had a whole new family.
I wanted to know what kind of pills Neve was taking (seems that she suffered from a mental condition?), and I don’t understand why she never brought it up when she was talking to her family.
I don't understand why this movie is getting such negative reviews, yet Skinamarink got rave reviews... go figure 🤣 anyway I agree with your review. I think the beginning was a premise to how she avoids conflict by running. The only indication you get of some sort of abusive relationship is his forcefulness in telling her to answer the phone and the belt hanging on the closet door. I didn't realize when she was talking to her sister that her sister was asking her when she was coming because she actually had her kids over there. When she's talking to her on the phone you hear a baby cry and she says Calrl go check on your sister....I thought it was her sister kids lmao. So I think that's why they had the beginning like that. The only other indicator she had any kids were the magnets on the fridge. So I was shocked that she had a first set of kids from her previous marriage that she left. To me I think her covering up her hair wasn't only to cover her blackness but also to kind of disguise herself in case anyone from her past came back. I think the only reason she chose that richer life which no it wasn't exciting but it was safe was because she was away from anyone who would recognize her there.. I think when she saw Carl/Marvin she did recognize him and or believed he would be the right age of her previous son. I think even though she didn't raise him he might have looked like her husband, some kids look exactly like their parents so I think she figured out that he could possibly be him which explains why she was so bothered by his appearance. When she whooped her son with her slipper I cracked up because her blackness was showing 🤣 I felt bad for the father who I think died, I don't think he was injured Joseph 🤣 I was sitting there wondering why the oldest son would allow the mother or anyone other than him and Dione to get the food because naturally they can tell the delivery man to call the cops which I thought would happen but this ending was far better than that lmao. When her nonchalant personality arrived I was like oh ok this is her coping mechanism when things go left and I knew she was about to jet when she had her jacket in her hand 🤣I was like this bih out, she was like y'all can have all of this life and the last 🤣 it was AWESOME to me.
you had a nice take on this. i just watched the strays last night with my mom and it was pretty decent. i do agree that they should’ve showed us Neve first to build suspense and keep the audience guessing. i do feel like the final shot being the 4 kids standing by the front door was a bit abrupt, but it was still a good movie. i suggest reviewing the short film “opal” by jack stauber if you haven’t already. happy new years!
There may be a deeper meaning. Perhaps her black children never actually came back...they were simply delusions of guilt. Cheryl was so paranoid and afraid of her blackness, which represented ultimate struggle and oppression, that she imagined that blackness creeping in to poison her new family and status. Realistically, the impact of black culture is inescapable, and every sign of it touching her family made her delusions become even more real and threatening. Eventually her husband Abi couldn't handle the presssure and weight of her constant paranoia and distorted uptight perfection, which the heavy weights in the gym represented, and he finally folded under that pressure and asked for a divorce. The flooding from the running water represented how she was now drowning in a sea of psychological distress, and her turning off the faucet was her finally deciding she couldn't take any more. So as she'd done before she gathered herself, took a long look in the mirror...and fled her unwanted life once again.
There were literally secens of her first kids going through their past pictures with her as well as being hired by people that worked with her. They weren't imagined. They were definitely real.
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Yay! Finally you reviewed this…after I watch a movie, I follow up with watching your reviews..love your hair analysis. I agree. Her wigs were sub par..😂I wanted more, for the finale…the ending was lacklustre to me. Why did the poor husband have to die, and they let Neve off?
Yes..I was conflicted by Cheryl's dissatisfaction...was it caused by a violent partner or did she leave for other reasons....Nev's success in her new life must of been hard work even with its restrictions...So is the film about trauma?
I didn’t see Ian as a husband. He came off more as a 5th child. He was whiny, weak, eager to play dumb and very “Take care of me, Mom.” I was just thinking to myself, “Where did she find this guy?” He didn’t seem to know anything about her, didn’t try to understand her after her confession, was super quick to ask for a divorce. It was like she went from commodity to inconvenience in his eyes. She was a stranger to all of them. I loved this movie. It challenged our beliefs on motherhood, classism, race, social stigma. I was raised by a single parent and I think she would have been better off if she had prioritized her mental health. I think my mother’s fear of being branded a bad mom did irreparable damage to her. This movie focused on Cheryl/Neve taking care of the needs of everyone else, but didn’t show anyone taking care of her. I loved the ending. I’m glad she acknowledged her breaking point and rolled out.
I've been looking for this review every day lol. When she kept scratching her head I thought there was gonna be some Bad Hair shit going on like a demon coming out of her wig but NOPE. Just itchy 😂
This film actually seems interesting. I’m going to watch it. I don’t blame her for escaping at the end cause of her original children holding her family captive.
I was struck by how her first instinct wasn't to ask the food delivery guy to call the police, her first instinct was to escape. She had to have had some inkling that they were all in danger, but she left her children in harm's way, at the mercy of the first set of children that she initially left behind. For most mothers, that would be unthinkable, to willfully allow harm to be brought upon their kids.
I’d love your take on my review. I actually don’t think this is about her hating her blackness. Excellent point about them not knowing each other well.
I thought the movie was really good. Very unexpected ending. I remember the lead actress from the TV show 'Revenge'. The characters of Carl and Abigail were really believable (I thought the guy was the guy from the TV show Snowfall at first)
I didn't understand what this movie was attempting to say (if anything) because it portrays everyone in such a bad light. However, by murdering an innocent man, it justifys the mothers behaviour in wanting to get away from her first set of children/old life, which is totally unacceptable. It could be argued that her actions prompted the response. However, the response was so over the top that it just made the kids seem bad and ridiculous. I'd like to understand this movie a little better as at the moment, I just feel it reinforces negative stereotypes, and I'd like to hear a different perspective
Just a thought! On days you guys can’t be together go ahead and sit in the middle (as in take up the frame) that way we as an audience don’t feel the missing party as much. Love your take on this film ❤️
I couldn’t stop thinking there’s no way an upper middle class woman obsessed with her appearance is going to just have a few struggle wigs to choose from. 😂
I guess it looks like a case of Passing going on. No matter how much she tries to run away from who she really is, the family will always remind her of exactly that. And in the end she just keeps on running away.
Also, Neve's White husband tells her that he likes her natural hair and wants to know why she covers it up, and Neve responds by saying what most Black women who wear wigs and weaves say: "it's just maintenance when, in fact, she's ashamed of her natural hair.
I didn’t care for this movie but I was hype for this review 😂 I especially didn’t like that the dark skin characters were also made to be bad guys. And I can’t with this man basically committing suicide vía barbell. Like, stand yo ass up sir.
I thought that way as well with the strays being black and the bad guys, but then I thought back to Neve’s scene in the beginning which all three were mentally affected by whatever they experienced from her first marriage. Neve said there were horrible things that happened. Also tying in the thought of racism creating mental illness.
I've just watched this, I understand what you mean, was she really living a life pretending to be something she wasn't, accent etc her past caught up with her...
I believe Carl and Dione just wanted to be a family. Through the week the spent with their siblings they saw themselves in them and bonded in a way. I do think if they hadn't had that time and seen those vulnerabilities they would have kicked off on them. That just left the dad. They want a parent and the loving relationship they think their siblings have with their mom so their obstacle had to be the dad. He had to be the villain otherwise they spent 17 traumatic yrs fantasizing what never was.
I thought it was a decent movie. The mom is a damn trip. 😂 And so were the kids. I know what's like to have an absent parent. If they're gone they're meant to be. No hard feelings towards the next persons short comings. And, I feel the kids should've felt the same way. They should've been paying attention to the blessings they did have. Like all their sense to be able to walk, talk, eat, find a job, ect. Especially after I got broke off. I wouldn't care about momma no more since she didn't want her own children. They cared too much and tried to force themselves on a mom who didn't want them. They should've matched that energy and not wanted her either. And pple like the dad kill me. He would've followed up on the kids if he really cared. He just took the wife's word for it and carried on. But, wanted to shame her everytime a truth was revealed.
This is the first film I've seen in a while where the intended Protagonist isn't very likeable. I literally didn't have any sympathy for her at all and felt like she deserved everything she got. I really enjoyed the film and how it was put together but the ending was, uncomfortable but also a bit flat and unbelievable. I didn't understand how the family let Carl and Dione get away with so much? And why was poor Ian punished so badly when he was innocent in this and even stood up for Carl and Dione? Why did nobody stop the house from getting flooded? It just really confused me. When Cheryl left on the bike, it made me laugh because she just proved what a horrible person she really is and her children were probably better off without her
I think Ian is killed by the barbells at the end…and I think I’m gonna the critique of someone devious to review this movie. You seem too nice to get some of her motives😀😎.. Seriously, though, one thing I like was that even though race was factor, it was coincidental (my opinion). This woman was willing to do whatever to get ahead.. or acquire status. I think it could have been about anything she perceived to be a disadvantage or obstruction and it would have worked almost as well. Or for that matter, any that perceived as an advantage, because she was like a psychopathic chameleon. Fitting in is what mattered. She didn’t seem to have a problem throwing fundraiser to benefit Gambia.. a nice touch to convey hypocrisy.
The moment I saw the jacket in her hand I knew she was about to run again .. that ending was the most shocking part of the film 😂
If fuck them kids was a person🤣
I actually found it funny.
@@melissawright1979same
"The wigs have hard edges."
I haven't heard anything that funny in a long time. 😂😂
Her wig game 😂
I must be the only idiot who really thought she was going to get help at the end. 😂😂😂 I also thought she was hallucinating until the two kids showed up to the hotel.
I had a feeling she was going to run away in the end 🤣 She said fuck all them kids
I love this comment....I wanted to say the same thing....lol
I did enjoy this film, but I do agree that I wish the movie would’ve just started with not knowing anything about Cheryl’s past. I felt so bad for Ian lol he really didn’t know anything and he was the one who got it the worst. Would’ve been great to have more violence at the end to really ramp it up. When the delivery man came through I was expecting Cheryl to pass him a note to call the police. Never guessed that she was going to run away from her problems again.
She literally said FDK… All of them.. 😂😂😂😂
She did a Bernie😂
Yo right 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I didn't blame her the second time, save yourself 😆😆
This is exactly how I move through life and will continue goodbye
I actually enjoyed this movie a lot. It reminded me of a combination of Get Out, Us and Funny Games.
Definitely Us
Agree! I definitely thought this was another Jordan Peele movie. I was surprised that he didn’t direct it.
@@Solveit832 Or M. Night Shamalan
I enjoyed it too
@@BiancaMH true
“Better wig game “…..lol
"Well"damn I guess some people are not meant to be parents and I guess sometimes they figure out that shit way too late tragically for everybody especially the kids
I thought the title was a play on words as in stray hairs that often expose our true hair texture and strays as in a person that wanders or roams from a route or path
I one hundred % agree it would’ve been better if we didn’t know her past in the beginning great review Joseph
Definitely!! It would have added to the mystery
She's kinda like the dad who goes out for the milk or pack of cigarettes. They always make more kids and they often dont have the courage to face the children/women they've wronged. ..its just more trippy because its a woman.
She did mentioned that fathers do it all the time.
Neve was giving me a bit of a Victoria Beckham vibe..Dion looked the same age as Neve to me, it was throwing me off. The story was like when your past comes back to haunt you and instead of making amends and doing better you just double down rinse and repeat your mistakes. The movie was pretty good, story and acting-wise.
Funny enough....she actually is 41 and Dion is 20/21.
I was WAITING for this review 😂 You always deliver Joseph ❤️
Me too!
Ditto!
When she said "fathers do it all the time" I was like ouch!
But was she lying? Doesn’t make it right, it does happen way too often.
@@amberrj. 😂😂😂
Meanwhile she is explaining it to the father which raised her kids👊🏾
I was like wow the audacity of this b!t
Right
I am so glad you reviewed this! I really liked this movie and I did watch it alone so it’s nice to hear some thoughts on it. I loved the ending, the four kids standing there in shock.
While Nick is the movie brain, Joseph is the movie heart. That's why I'm here. 💜
That's so true!!!
That is such a sweet comment!
Nadineo9436 you nailed it with your comment very well said
Many men run from their families for various reasons . It’s kind of romanticized. “ I had wife and kids in Baltimore jack…went out for a ride and never went back… like a river that don’t know where is flowin I took a wrong turn and I just kept goin.” This case the person seems to want to be a complete different person.
I was cracking up when you said, "she took off her Chancla". 😄
I have never seen y’all apart I enjoyed the solo review 😁
I was like yayyy, he reviewed it!! Lol. I was one of the people making the suggestion. Lol. Thanks for listening to your audience, yo. Lol.
So, are we supposed to believe that her husband did not suspect that his own children were Mixed? 'Cuz they def don't look straight White.
Btw, after that ending all I heard was, " 🎶She's a runner, she's a track star, she goin' runaway when it gets hard🎵".
Just finished this movie moments ago and had to know what you think! This movie did NOT go where I thought it would go and I was pleasantly surprised as well. Although the movie isn’t perfect, the TENSION in this movie was high.
Great review; sorry Nick wasn’t there. Hope to see you both soon doing reviews together🥰
Very relative to Charles W. Chesnutt 's 1898 short story The Wife of His Youth, as far as colorism within the diaspora and the past life of the protagonist
Got halfway through this movie on Saturday, then stopped and came looking for a review from you guys. Now that you have posted one, I can go back and finish the movie. 😏😁
Okay, Joseph Boo, I am going to sneak in and thumbs-up , then sneak out. I want to watch this one because the trailer didn't give much away so I am excited and intrigued. I will be back afterwards to hear my fav chit-chat with my wine 🍷later 🤗
You broke it down very calmly. 😊The ending was "iffy" but your review was very interesting.
Great review Joseph! I saw the trailer for this and it looked interesting. It sort of reminded me of the movie “Passing” when I saw the actress looking bothered or afraid that her cover was blown.
Passing was a good movie
@@BiancaMH yes it was and so is the book ❤️
I am so excited to hear your take!
Felt like a Jordan Peele movie
He wish 🙄
I watched it two days ago and immediately went to your channel and was upset I didn't see any review lol. Glad you decided to review this 😊
You need to review the show, Behind Her Eyes. It was wild lol
There was a episode on the show called The Locater a bi racial girl was looking for her mom that left her and her brother with there dads side of family for summer and never came back! We she was located she didn’t want nothing to do with her kids and had a whole new family.
I wanted to know what kind of pills Neve was taking (seems that she suffered from a mental condition?), and I don’t understand why she never brought it up when she was talking to her family.
Me too!
I thought they were whitening pills.
@@mothom323 oh wow interesting never thought that
Yes! I straight away thought skin lightening pills.
@@mothom323 Same.
You have to do more solo videos. Such a treat.
I don't understand why this movie is getting such negative reviews, yet Skinamarink got rave reviews... go figure 🤣 anyway I agree with your review. I think the beginning was a premise to how she avoids conflict by running. The only indication you get of some sort of abusive relationship is his forcefulness in telling her to answer the phone and the belt hanging on the closet door. I didn't realize when she was talking to her sister that her sister was asking her when she was coming because she actually had her kids over there. When she's talking to her on the phone you hear a baby cry and she says Calrl go check on your sister....I thought it was her sister kids lmao. So I think that's why they had the beginning like that. The only other indicator she had any kids were the magnets on the fridge. So I was shocked that she had a first set of kids from her previous marriage that she left. To me I think her covering up her hair wasn't only to cover her blackness but also to kind of disguise herself in case anyone from her past came back. I think the only reason she chose that richer life which no it wasn't exciting but it was safe was because she was away from anyone who would recognize her there.. I think when she saw Carl/Marvin she did recognize him and or believed he would be the right age of her previous son. I think even though she didn't raise him he might have looked like her husband, some kids look exactly like their parents so I think she figured out that he could possibly be him which explains why she was so bothered by his appearance. When she whooped her son with her slipper I cracked up because her blackness was showing 🤣 I felt bad for the father who I think died, I don't think he was injured Joseph 🤣 I was sitting there wondering why the oldest son would allow the mother or anyone other than him and Dione to get the food because naturally they can tell the delivery man to call the cops which I thought would happen but this ending was far better than that lmao. When her nonchalant personality arrived I was like oh ok this is her coping mechanism when things go left and I knew she was about to jet when she had her jacket in her hand 🤣I was like this bih out, she was like y'all can have all of this life and the last 🤣 it was AWESOME to me.
Joseph is such an attractive and charismatic presence. He should get into hosting work. Is he a SAG member?
From your lips to some executive’s ears
@@fishjellyfilmreviews😁
We ❤️ Joseph!
@@ISIKOFF5 True that no doubt JOSEPH IS MAGNIFICENT!!🤗
He is handsome. The real handsome ones are almost never straight lol. Like dang why the men get all the good-looking chiseled guys lol.
you had a nice take on this. i just watched the strays last night with my mom and it was pretty decent. i do agree that they should’ve showed us Neve first to build suspense and keep the audience guessing. i do feel like the final shot being the 4 kids standing by the front door was a bit abrupt, but it was still a good movie. i suggest reviewing the short film “opal” by jack stauber if you haven’t already. happy new years!
There may be a deeper meaning. Perhaps her black children never actually came back...they were simply delusions of guilt. Cheryl was so paranoid and afraid of her blackness, which represented ultimate struggle and oppression, that she imagined that blackness creeping in to poison her new family and status. Realistically, the impact of black culture is inescapable, and every sign of it touching her family made her delusions become even more real and threatening. Eventually her husband Abi couldn't handle the presssure and weight of her constant paranoia and distorted uptight perfection, which the heavy weights in the gym represented, and he finally folded under that pressure and asked for a divorce. The flooding from the running water represented how she was now drowning in a sea of psychological distress, and her turning off the faucet was her finally deciding she couldn't take any more. So as she'd done before she gathered herself, took a long look in the mirror...and fled her unwanted life once again.
That’s exactly what I also thought
There were literally secens of her first kids going through their past pictures with her as well as being hired by people that worked with her. They weren't imagined. They were definitely real.
Another great review, thank you Joseph!
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Thank you for reviewing this. I can't wait to hear what you have to say.🍿🍿🍿
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No but I’ll take it.
Yay! Finally you reviewed this…after I watch a movie, I follow up with watching your reviews..love your hair analysis. I agree. Her wigs were sub par..😂I wanted more, for the finale…the ending was lacklustre to me. Why did the poor husband have to die, and they let Neve off?
I felt for Ian, He had nothing to do with this!!
This movie was something! I told a few people to watch this so im glad you covered it❤
I just finished it. At the end, I started yelling, then my mouth was on the floor and I went quiet. Wow.
Thank you!
I loved that you did this review on your own. Fabulous job. Just watched this today.
I totally forgot about this one so thank you for the reminder.
I love that they didn’t play w/ our intelligence and acknowledged that she was biracial and that her kids were as well.
You sold me. About to watch it right now.📺
I really liked this movie. ~She RAN again~ You did a fabulous job, Joseph. Thoroughly enjoyed your review!
She ran for her life.
Yes..I was conflicted by Cheryl's dissatisfaction...was it caused by a violent partner or did she leave for other reasons....Nev's success in her new life must of been hard work even with its restrictions...So is the film about trauma?
She flees when things get messy. In the beg, she loses her job and everything. Finances are a mess, her baby daddy a mess, so she leaves
I was searching for this review.. and here it is👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
This sounds good, I'm going to check it out. Awesome review!
You’re so right though. I wasn’t paying attention at the beginning and I think I enjoyed it more than I would have if I saw the kid thing coming
Speaking of the beginning who left the message, was that carl?
Awesome review 🎉
I didn’t see Ian as a husband. He came off more as a 5th child. He was whiny, weak, eager to play dumb and very “Take care of me, Mom.” I was just thinking to myself, “Where did she find this guy?” He didn’t seem to know anything about her, didn’t try to understand her after her confession, was super quick to ask for a divorce. It was like she went from commodity to inconvenience in his eyes. She was a stranger to all of them. I loved this movie. It challenged our beliefs on motherhood, classism, race, social stigma. I was raised by a single parent and I think she would have been better off if she had prioritized her mental health. I think my mother’s fear of being branded a bad mom did irreparable damage to her. This movie focused on Cheryl/Neve taking care of the needs of everyone else, but didn’t show anyone taking care of her. I loved the ending. I’m glad she acknowledged her breaking point and rolled out.
Interesting analysis...
When did he ask for a divorce? I did not hear that
@@pretty_wingz towards the end, after he found out she tried to palm them of with the 20K
glad other people have a similar perspective
Cheryl is a narcissist she does nice things to get praise she is not doing it genuinely
It was like a part 2 of “Imitation of Life”. Excellent movie but shocked at the end. 🤔
Great review and as always - accurate - thank you! Agreed.
Loved ur review! Don't need to really watch the movie now.
I've been looking for this review every day lol. When she kept scratching her head I thought there was gonna be some Bad Hair shit going on like a demon coming out of her wig but NOPE. Just itchy 😂
PS.... You both are great together but don't ever think you do a bad job when Nick is gone! You're fabulous on your own as well 💚
Me too!!
This film actually seems interesting. I’m going to watch it. I don’t blame her for escaping at the end cause of her original children holding her family captive.
I just watched it & it was a bit savage she just left like that but it was the perfect ending for the message of the film
I was struck by how her first instinct wasn't to ask the food delivery guy to call the police, her first instinct was to escape. She had to have had some inkling that they were all in danger, but she left her children in harm's way, at the mercy of the first set of children that she initially left behind. For most mothers, that would be unthinkable, to willfully allow harm to be brought upon their kids.
I’d love your take on my review. I actually don’t think this is about her hating her blackness. Excellent point about them not knowing each other well.
Right. The ending strongly implies that's the case. More of a classist survival mode
Yes. Has nothing to do with her blackness imo. She was living in poverty and had to make a way.
I thought the movie was really good. Very unexpected ending. I remember the lead actress from the TV show 'Revenge'. The characters of Carl and Abigail were really believable (I thought the guy was the guy from the TV show Snowfall at first)
So I knew they were kids but had no idea she was gonna to abandon her new kids. Bukky Bakray was great as Dione!
I didn't understand what this movie was attempting to say (if anything) because it portrays everyone in such a bad light. However, by murdering an innocent man, it justifys the mothers behaviour in wanting to get away from her first set of children/old life, which is totally unacceptable. It could be argued that her actions prompted the response. However, the response was so over the top that it just made the kids seem bad and ridiculous.
I'd like to understand this movie a little better as at the moment, I just feel it reinforces negative stereotypes, and I'd like to hear a different perspective
Husband apparently is racist because the older children are Black Black. He accepted the light skinned Black children.
@@MsAKA45 the light skin kids are his kids
Good job Joseph!
I definitely will be watching.
Just a thought! On days you guys can’t be together go ahead and sit in the middle (as in take up the frame) that way we as an audience don’t feel the missing party as much. Love your take on this film ❤️
Neve gonna wind up on the most lit episode of Maury ever
This sounds wild! I'm gonna have to check it out
Look at you solo again! Loved this movie!
Sounds very Jordan Peele-ish
Was hoping you would review this! This film had some good ideas, but the execution did not work for me.
Good job Joseph 👍🏾
I couldn’t stop thinking there’s no way an upper middle class woman obsessed with her appearance is going to just have a few struggle wigs to choose from. 😂
I guess it looks like a case of Passing going on. No matter how much she tries to run away from who she really is, the family will always remind her of exactly that. And in the end she just keeps on running away.
I’m bi racial, but was raised by a white mother and a Lebanese stepfather and this is exactly how my stepfather acted.
Also, Neve's White husband tells her that he likes her natural hair and wants to know why she covers it up, and Neve responds by saying what most Black women who wear wigs and weaves say: "it's just maintenance when, in fact, she's ashamed of her natural hair.
It’s like the Flowers in the Attic black version
Carl and Dion are two crazy young people who wanted to be excepted !!
I didn’t care for this movie but I was hype for this review 😂
I especially didn’t like that the dark skin characters were also made to be bad guys.
And I can’t with this man basically committing suicide vía barbell. Like, stand yo ass up sir.
Stand up! Lol ☠️
I thought that way as well with the strays being black and the bad guys, but then I thought back to Neve’s scene in the beginning which all three were mentally affected by whatever they experienced from her first marriage. Neve said there were horrible things that happened. Also tying in the thought of racism creating mental illness.
Giving Jordan Peele inspired
As specific as the afro-surrealist psychological thriller sounds, it's not a monolith. Jordan peele did not create this genre, nor does he own it
I loved the movie.
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This movie is the best movie I’ve seen since Joker.
I've just watched this, I understand what you mean, was she really living a life pretending to be something she wasn't, accent etc her past caught up with her...
Kinda annoying they’re torturing the family who has no idea of her past, idk it kinda made me mad and then the ending.. ehhhh
The wigs were horrendous!😭😢
I believe Carl and Dione just wanted to be a family. Through the week the spent with their siblings they saw themselves in them and bonded in a way. I do think if they hadn't had that time and seen those vulnerabilities they would have kicked off on them. That just left the dad. They want a parent and the loving relationship they think their siblings have with their mom so their obstacle had to be the dad. He had to be the villain otherwise they spent 17 traumatic yrs fantasizing what never was.
I thought it was a decent movie. The mom is a damn trip. 😂 And so were the kids. I know what's like to have an absent parent. If they're gone they're meant to be. No hard feelings towards the next persons short comings. And, I feel the kids should've felt the same way. They should've been paying attention to the blessings they did have. Like all their sense to be able to walk, talk, eat, find a job, ect. Especially after I got broke off. I wouldn't care about momma no more since she didn't want her own children. They cared too much and tried to force themselves on a mom who didn't want them. They should've matched that energy and not wanted her either. And pple like the dad kill me. He would've followed up on the kids if he really cared. He just took the wife's word for it and carried on. But, wanted to shame her everytime a truth was revealed.
This is the first film I've seen in a while where the intended Protagonist isn't very likeable. I literally didn't have any sympathy for her at all and felt like she deserved everything she got.
I really enjoyed the film and how it was put together but the ending was, uncomfortable but also a bit flat and unbelievable. I didn't understand how the family let Carl and Dione get away with so much? And why was poor Ian punished so badly when he was innocent in this and even stood up for Carl and Dione?
Why did nobody stop the house from getting flooded? It just really confused me. When Cheryl left on the bike, it made me laugh because she just proved what a horrible person she really is and her children were probably better off without her
A must watch movie
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Why does everyone gloss over they kill that bully
I think Ian is killed by the barbells at the end…and I think I’m gonna the critique of someone devious to review this movie. You seem too nice to get some of her motives😀😎.. Seriously, though, one thing I like was that even though race was factor, it was coincidental (my opinion). This woman was willing to do whatever to get ahead.. or acquire status. I think it could have been about anything she perceived to be a disadvantage or obstruction and it would have worked almost as well. Or for that matter, any that perceived as an advantage, because she was like a psychopathic chameleon. Fitting in is what mattered. She didn’t seem to have a problem throwing fundraiser to benefit Gambia.. a nice touch to convey hypocrisy.
Basically this is a story about a n extremely selfish, narcissistic, and vain women who is willing to risk anything to achieve her rich white dream.
Good Job Joseph!!!
This one man show doesn't feel right. NICK!!
UGH I MISSED YOU
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He was going to throw him off the roof..