Is God Is, Aleshea Harris’ debut film, is just so much movie. Brimming to the top with philosophy, morality, and general weirdness, the film overwhelms the viewer and leaves scenes playing in your mind long after the movie is over. An edgy noir with creepy humor and trippy editing, Is God Is follows twins Racine (Kara Young) and Anaia (Mallori Johnson) as they are contacted by their dying, estranged mother (Vivica A. Fox) who has one last wish: for her girls to kill her abusive ex-husband, the man responsible for setting them on fire and causing their lifelong disfigurement. They travel across the country to find him, confronting various moral quandaries along the way.
The film opens on flashbacks of the sisters' childhood as they protect one another from bullying based on their physical appearances. Also introduced at the beginning of the film is its distinctive visual style, illustrating the twins' thoughts and communications to each other with onscreen text to illustrate their psychic bond. Soon enough, however, the girls are grown up and living together in a dingy apartment. They’re just scraping by when they receive a letter from their long lost mother. When they travel to her home and find her covered in bandages, her gruesome injuries attended to day and night by nurses. Here, Is God Is flexes its editing mastery once again, as the girl's mother, referred to reverently as God, flashes back to the night that her husband beat her and set her on fire, narrating the horror straight to camera. God herself leaves her daughters with one mission: "Make your daddy dead. Dead. And everything around him? Destroy it too."
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