Teaser for 'Bad Hair'

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In this horror satire set in 1989, Bad Hair follows an ambitious young woman who gets a weave in order to succeed in the image-obsessed world of music television. However, her flourishing career comes at a great cost when she realizes that her new hair may have a mind of its own.

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[pivotandsway]

Girl it's ok bc I'm about to ramble lol. I assume they will go into that dynamic. I believe gets a weave because her boss tells her to (or something like that). White supremacy has always controlled the boundaries of what is respectable and desirable, especially in corporate spaces. It doesn't really matter if we personally insist on one thing or the other even with legislation, because people are always going to prejudge us based on the hue of our skin, our weight, our hair and treat us accordingly. And if you know wearing a weave gets you better treatment, well who could blame you for getting one if that wasn't your initial inclination. It's a feedback loop, feeding internalized antiblackness and misogynoir existing in a society fueled by those things. There's a lot going on. My thing is this is a very nuanced subject about something very personal to Black women, and I do not think Justin has the range, no matter how many Black women he talked to (including Lena Waithe... 😑) who are not formally credited for whatever contributions they may have made. I would prefer if Black women were more involved in telling that story, from screenplay to cinematographer to to editor to assistant director and so on. And frankly, seeing reviews from white (usually male) film critics acting as if they know anything about Black hair makes my skin itch, sorry. But that also highlights the need for Black women film critics lol. Anyway I think I've gotten most of my hot takes out so by the time this causes war on Twitter and LSA I can just ignore it and live peacefully lmao. And hey maybe I will actually watch it and love it. I mean Kelly Rowland is in it. You never know lol

[h_wyatt]

No you articulated exactly what I could not about why I thought this project was "off." It feels less like a confession, wherein the persons who experience it are reflecting on the emotions, trauma, processes, and "stuff" personally, and more like a science experiment, wherein a bystander is replicating the experience based on what he has observed or experienced second/third hand. Rather than saying "This is me, this my experience, let me share," its "This is an algamation of what I have heard and been told, let me pull that together into a story that is shaped by my own lens and share."

There is a lack of authenticity, a lack of personal knowledge, a lack of sensitivity, and a lack just getting it.