'Zola' is a Modern Black Fairytale
It’s fun, it’s energetic, but it’s also understated and vicarial. Zola is a modern black fairytale and future of black movies.

Aion is a non-binary person whose presentation fluctuates between masculine and feminine, even though they were assigned female at birth. About to participate in a job interview, they are faced with external pressure to conform to a gender expression that fits either as a man or a woman.
It’s fun, it’s energetic, but it’s also understated and vicarial. Zola is a modern black fairytale and future of black movies.
One Christmas Eve, after a sudden snowstorm, a group of teenagers will discover how their lives will change forever.
This inspiring true story falls nothing short of filling the audience with a passion to strive for their wildest dreams.
We can criticize depictions from old media, but they weren’t simply “good for their time”. They were fighting and struggling in a world we can’t imagine.
The movie opens with an empty house, cameras pan around from the perspective of what viewers are confused about at first, but turns out to be a spirit living in the home.