
The rich Petros and Eleni, who has a strict brother, have a relationship that is going through a difficult time due to their family environment and especially his mother. He goes to the army, his traces are lost, and she is thrown out by her own brother and finds herself on the street. A promoter (Vangelis Seilinos) exploits her and she becomes a stripper in a cabaret. After a while, he appears, the couple is back together, but she does not tell him what job she does. Until a friend tells the young man the truth and takes him to the cabaret...
While it is more than established that Halston’s life is far from a fairytale, the narrative suffers as a result of the decision to revolve more around sex and drugs than his artistry, it likely does a disservice to his cultural impact by pulling focus from his achievements.
Ultimately, Wicked is a story about the cost of being othered, the pain of being misnamed, and the quiet revolution of standing in your truth.
If your upbringing was anything like mine, where the TV acted as an additional parent- there are so many new stories and perspectives to explore.
After We Collided is a sequel to last year’s After, which itself was based on Anna Todd’s 2014 novel of the same name, and which was originally published as a Harry Styles-centric fan-fiction on WattPad (a similar path as E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey series).
Jordan Peele’s film is an intelligent and unflinching piece of work, firmly focused on the African American experience.