'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.

The scariest thing in the world for Trirong is ghost, but he was given a gift to see ghosts. When Trirong starts working as a teacher in an art university, he encounters two mischievous ghosts who enjoy bullying and haunting people around the university. Later, after getting used to the life with ghosts, Trirong has to team up with the two ghosts helping Ladda, a lady ghost who's searching for her lost boyfriend whom she believes his spirit resides in an oil color portrait.
It’s fun, it’s energetic, but it’s also understated and vicarial. Zola is a modern black fairytale and future of black movies.
Him is visually stunning—all concrete cathedrals and bone-rattling impact shots that look like a nightmare highlight reel. Marlon Wayans is magnetic as this legendary quarterback who's basically selling salvation with a smile that never quite reaches his eyes. But the story keeps running in circles: more tests, more cryptic pep talks, more ritualistic drills. The sports-as-religion metaphor beats you over the head when subtlety would've been more effective. The middle drags, and that finale chooses spectacle over substance. It's undeniably stylish, but left me cold. Also worth noting: despite the Monkeypaw connection, this isn't actually a Jordan Peele film—he didn't write or direct.
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