I Watched the Lee Daniels Film The Deliverance aka Bebe's Kids Wants McDonalds' and an Exorcism
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Years ago, I once watched and made a post on ONTD about Amma Assante's interracial love story set in Nazi Germany called Where Hands Touch after its viral dragging. Well, I'm back to watch the Tyler Per-- oh it's Lee Daniels directed The Deliverance starring forever frenemy Mo'nique, Andra Day, and Glenn Close. Since this film is still making the rounds on social media, I'll put everything under a big spoiler cut. If you've seen or just like clicking spoilers let's discuss.
Here's the synopsis: A family living in a home in Indiana discovers strange, demonic occurrences that convince them and the community that the house is a portal to hell. It's based on the story of Latoya Ammons.
Here my chaotic notes while watching -
[Spoiler (click to open)]
- Creepy paintings means creepy movie and you know what that means we've got an opening scene with a sermon
- The stylists have Glenn Too Far with Glenn Close’s eyebrows
- Andra Day plays GC’s lightskint daughter who can’t cook and who’s abusive and going through financial troubles. Daniels shoveled every negative stereotype about Black women he could into her character, it was borderline nauseating
- Besides little trickling dialogue to understand their characters, there’s not much real introduction here outside of a shallow view of a low-income family. The surroundings nor dialogue do a good job besides simply being a backdrop. I mean not every film has to have the character introduction of Parasite but Daniels doesn’t let it build by dropping it on us
- After sneaking to get milk, little one sees a dead bird after hitting the window - oh metaphor!
- Girl Lee Daniels cannot write and Andra’s delivery is stiff in the opening scenes
- Also Glenn’s accent, Dre probably out of loneliness talks to himself, that white woman doing a sew-in - metaphor?
- Who is that it’s him downstairs?
- Here she comes to save the daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay (it’s Mo’nique, she’s here) okay, but Mr. Daniels, who is this? A social worker, DCFS?, blackmailer who gets the good shit from Ann Taylor because she’s a little too familiar walking in they house.
- Strange things keep happening with Lil Dre but the audience is no closer to identifying or the lore behind these strange noises… given the physical abuse and Ebony’s alcoholism it could be the blackouts and memory loss from abuse, so I'm thinking that's where we're going. Bad Bitch Bertha don’t seemed to be shocked by it
- The scenes never really wrap up or evolve, they just radically jump from place to place. For example when all three children have rather unexplainable disturbing breakdowns and admitted to the hospital there’s an argumentative but the kids just sort end up near Bad Bitch Bertha’s car looking ready to go? Like the little one ate his poop
- Berta sees her pastor about these trances but pastor says there’s no money in that, BBB gotta go somewhere else
- Now we learn of the family who lived there before them from the lady staking out the house… but it’s just more unanswered shit with no development so… really just to rush a plot to explain how Trey (the demon) manifests
- But big ups to Daniels because that McDonald’s trademark is not hidden (Big Mac baby not Big Mic) in this sit down scene with Ebony and the Apostle - the lady staking outside when Mary visits - who now wears all black
- Nigga wheyamin this is just a fire and brimstone Christian film?!?!?!
- I thought maybe this would be symbolism for the abuse children suffer and can carry on but then we’ve taken a nosedive into cheap Svengoolie amateur horror
- Okay, so you know how Enron’s slogan used to be “Ask Why?” That’s what this writing needed ask why? Why is no one why? Who? What? When? How? Or where for that matter?
- Apostle James puts on her best shiny track suit to perform an exorcism … and look Lil Dre is just Cruella From Round the Way, maybe Bertha's character is supposed to be the stand in for the scripture "a wolf in sheep's clothing" considering the past explicit dialogue of Ebony suffering abuse when she was younger.
- The daughter very much seems like a forgotten character in this entire mess of a film and I guess we just gone skip Ebony being a physically abusive parent and we hit all stereotypical church horror stuff - Dramian, speaking in tongues, fire, body contortions, nurses with attitude . Like there's a scripture that says no forgiveness is given to those to hurt children
- A lady who hated that a cross was in her home is now quoting scripture???? All to save the kids she abuses?
Too long, won't ever read - let's bring back that strife between Monique and Lee Daniels because a movie that has no real vision, filled with reductive stereotypes and characters and utter tomfoolery would've served better as a wild Nextdoor post.
Black History Month is cancelled!
Years ago, I once watched and made a post on ONTD about Amma Assante's interracial love story set in Nazi Germany called Where Hands Touch after its viral dragging. Well, I'm back to watch the Tyler Per-- oh it's Lee Daniels directed The Deliverance starring forever frenemy Mo'nique, Andra Day, and Glenn Close. Since this film is still making the rounds on social media, I'll put everything under a big spoiler cut. If you've seen or just like clicking spoilers let's discuss.
Here's the synopsis: A family living in a home in Indiana discovers strange, demonic occurrences that convince them and the community that the house is a portal to hell. It's based on the story of Latoya Ammons.
Here my chaotic notes while watching -
[Spoiler (click to open)]
- Creepy paintings means creepy movie and you know what that means we've got an opening scene with a sermon
- The stylists have Glenn Too Far with Glenn Close’s eyebrows
- Andra Day plays GC’s lightskint daughter who can’t cook and who’s abusive and going through financial troubles. Daniels shoveled every negative stereotype about Black women he could into her character, it was borderline nauseating
- Besides little trickling dialogue to understand their characters, there’s not much real introduction here outside of a shallow view of a low-income family. The surroundings nor dialogue do a good job besides simply being a backdrop. I mean not every film has to have the character introduction of Parasite but Daniels doesn’t let it build by dropping it on us
- After sneaking to get milk, little one sees a dead bird after hitting the window - oh metaphor!
- Girl Lee Daniels cannot write and Andra’s delivery is stiff in the opening scenes
- Also Glenn’s accent, Dre probably out of loneliness talks to himself, that white woman doing a sew-in - metaphor?
- Who is that it’s him downstairs?
- Here she comes to save the daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay (it’s Mo’nique, she’s here) okay, but Mr. Daniels, who is this? A social worker, DCFS?, blackmailer who gets the good shit from Ann Taylor because she’s a little too familiar walking in they house.
- Strange things keep happening with Lil Dre but the audience is no closer to identifying or the lore behind these strange noises… given the physical abuse and Ebony’s alcoholism it could be the blackouts and memory loss from abuse, so I'm thinking that's where we're going. Bad Bitch Bertha don’t seemed to be shocked by it
- The scenes never really wrap up or evolve, they just radically jump from place to place. For example when all three children have rather unexplainable disturbing breakdowns and admitted to the hospital there’s an argumentative but the kids just sort end up near Bad Bitch Bertha’s car looking ready to go? Like the little one ate his poop
- Berta sees her pastor about these trances but pastor says there’s no money in that, BBB gotta go somewhere else
- Now we learn of the family who lived there before them from the lady staking out the house… but it’s just more unanswered shit with no development so… really just to rush a plot to explain how Trey (the demon) manifests
- But big ups to Daniels because that McDonald’s trademark is not hidden (Big Mac baby not Big Mic) in this sit down scene with Ebony and the Apostle - the lady staking outside when Mary visits - who now wears all black
- Nigga wheyamin this is just a fire and brimstone Christian film?!?!?!
- I thought maybe this would be symbolism for the abuse children suffer and can carry on but then we’ve taken a nosedive into cheap Svengoolie amateur horror
- Okay, so you know how Enron’s slogan used to be “Ask Why?” That’s what this writing needed ask why? Why is no one why? Who? What? When? How? Or where for that matter?
- Apostle James puts on her best shiny track suit to perform an exorcism … and look Lil Dre is just Cruella From Round the Way, maybe Bertha's character is supposed to be the stand in for the scripture "a wolf in sheep's clothing" considering the past explicit dialogue of Ebony suffering abuse when she was younger.
- The daughter very much seems like a forgotten character in this entire mess of a film and I guess we just gone skip Ebony being a physically abusive parent and we hit all stereotypical church horror stuff - Dramian, speaking in tongues, fire, body contortions, nurses with attitude . Like there's a scripture that says no forgiveness is given to those to hurt children
- A lady who hated that a cross was in her home is now quoting scripture???? All to save the kids she abuses?
Too long, won't ever read - let's bring back that strife between Monique and Lee Daniels because a movie that has no real vision, filled with reductive stereotypes and characters and utter tomfoolery would've served better as a wild Nextdoor post.
Black History Month is cancelled!