THEN Onda Tonight on the first TV at 9.10 pm on Rai Movie, Antebellum It is a film released in 2020 that Mix contemporary horror to the historical reconstruction. The (double) story tells of two African American women, a nineteenth -century slave and a contemporary writer linked by a mystery that crosses the centuries.
Antebellum: the plot of the film on the first TV on Rai Movie
The film takes place on two time plans with two apparently distant stories It is very different from each other, yet connected. In the first we are in 1860shortly before the American secession war which would then bring the abolition of slavery. In a cotton field, Eden (the pop star Janelle Monáe), reluctant but submissive slave that repeatedly undergoes violence by the owners of the cultivation, as well as his torturers. The girl is also the personal concubine from the head of the plantationSenator Blake Denton (Eric Lange), but one day he decides to rebel.
The action then moves to 2020 New York, Veronica (always Monáe), successful writer and career woman, who remains blocked in a terrifying reality from which he cannot go out. In fact, the woman was kidnapped by a taxi driver (Jena Malone) and seems to be mysteriously disappearing. His disappearance, however, will prove to be a race against time, in fact Veronica must solve a disturbing mystery As soon as possible to free himself from his torturers. But What do the tortured slave in 1860 and the enterprising Veronica have in common?.
Janelle Monáe in a scene of “Antebellum”. (Eagle Pictures)
A political horror on the racial issue
Debut for the direction of the pair of screenwriters Gerard Bush and Cristopher Ren, Antebellum And a horror vented of science fiction but above all by the very strong political content. New chapter deThe “Black Horror” sub-Filoneor films that resort to the codes of terror to talk about the racial issue, The film was born as a response to the social tensions already emerged with the Black Lives Matter And to white suprematism in Trumpian America.
Produced by Jordan Peele – progenitor of the “black horror” with his ESCAPP – GET OUT, Antebellum It is striking for its unconventional intertwining but it certainly cannot be said at the height of its predecessors. Good idea but The film is too sleeve When he underlines how the horrors of the past reverberate on the present. William Faulkner’s quote that opens the filmand that returns during the film, is from this exemplary point of view: “The past never dies. It hasn’t even passed”. Instead, the proof of Janelle Monáe is excellent.
Antebellum: the meaning of the word
Antebellum It means “before the war”. More specifically comes Used especially in the southern United States when referring to the period before the American Secession War (1861-1865). The word is associated with a certain lifestyle, architecture and culture that characterized South States precisely before the war. Furthermore, The Latin phrase “status quo ante bellum” – that is” the state of affairs before the war ” – is used in international treaties for indicate the return to the situation prior to the conflictincluding borders and political relationships.
In the cast the singer and actress Janelle Monáe
Born in Kansas City in 1985, Janelle Monáe publishes his first EP Metropolis: Suite I (The Chase) In 2007. After a few years of apprenticeship in 2013 The consecration comes with The Electric Lady, Disco that reaches the fifth position of the US Billboard 200. Also thanks to the individual Queenwinner of an MTV Video Music Awards. In 2018 his third solo project is published, Dirty computerpraised by critics and supported by the individual Make me feel.
The debut as an actress takes place in 2016 When Janelle enters in the cast of The right to count And Moonlightfilms widely praised by critics. After Antebellumthe actress Starts in the film Glass Onion: Knives Out winning an Award satellite. Winner in 2023 of the #Seeher Award at the Critics’ Choice AwardsJanelle is also activist and supporter of the freedom of gender identity, of the LGBT communityof the rights of women and the civil rights movement of African Americans.
Soon you will see it in the TV series De la resistancein horror Is god is And In the new Michel Gondry film entitled Golden. A musical inspired by the childhood of Pharrell Williams In Virginia Beach with in the cast also by the Joy Randolph, the rapper Missy Elliott and André 3000 of the Hip-Hop Outkast duo.