Review of Antebellum (2020) by Viroodiem — 23 Sep 2020

Pure, triple distilled racist propaganda. It amazes me that this could make it to release.

Every corner of this drips black racism. However its misandry and sexism are not that far behind. What is more nuanced is the elitism that is more delicately woven into the fabric of the film.

Trying to remain positive of a film that does not deserve such consideration, the sets are well done and the actors do their best with what they had to work with. Gabourey Sidibe does a particularly good job of portraying a completely unlikable character with clear delusions and entitled sense of self worth that would simply not be humanly possible.

The racist tropes are all here and it goes out of its way to put forth some rather inventive ones in this plot that is so utterly implausible it is literally impossible.

What this film does is impressive. It shows just how far propaganda can go to push a political ideology, all while being obliviously unaware of itself to understand just how wrong it gets the subject matter it deals with, all while insulting its prime target demographics.

All that said if you can get beyond rolling your eyes in the back of your head for how ridiculous the movie is, it is at least on some level entertaining. Sadly its the level of watching a train wreck to see how mangled the bodies come out but people do in fact watch for that sort of thing, even if they will never dare admit that is why they gawked.

Look, dont take my word for it... just look at how low the critic scores are and know studios can buy critic reviews with ease. If it can only muster a 44 with as high of a profile as this movie has, you KNOW its terrible.