An illustrator is commissioned to illustrate a badger, but how can she find one to depict?
This is not a slavery story, it is a freedom story. The viewers only see Harriet as a slave for the first few minutes of the film. To me, it felt like watching the origin story of a superhero…which is both good and bad.
While the director didn't set out to make a feminist film, "A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night" reads as a reclamation of female power in a patriarchal society.
A haunting look at grief, survival, and a mother’s quiet collapse in a world that never gave her room to fall.
Despite everything it was capable of, all of these poor choices strung together amount to nothing more than a counter-productive film.
