Finally getting around to watching this one, when I saw the trailers for this one I was expecting a horror movie akin to Get Out. While there are some similar aspects this one is much more in the psychological thriller after seeing it from beginning to end. The movie starts of with some sweeping views of a southern plantation akin to the likes of Gone with the Wind and things start going from pretty landscape to slave torture as we find Janelle Monáe trying to escape from a cotton plantation run by Jena Malone and confederate soldiers complete with a confederate flag in the center of things. For the first part of this movie it seems as a heavy fisted look at treatment of slaves and then something happens we see Janelle Monáe in a present day out with some girl friends and we have a twist where a cell phone appears in the plantation. The movie shifts to a totally different terror finding this slavery is happening in this present time line no how plausible how it is occurring. Once the twist is done that’s when this movie got my attention and I started questioning how did I not see this coming, I even after the movie was over went back to the beginning for a little bit then realized everything we see from present to Antebellum version of her is there for a reason she is using every piece of knowledge in her head to figure out and survive her situation. There were several negative reviews that I read or heard about this and I would have to say there are a few points I agree with, for the most part though I would recommend this, yes the directors are trying to push a lot of concepts through do they all stick...no. It makes you think and question things which I think makes a good movie, how much wrong is going on in the world and we are oblivious to it.
