Uptight bride-to-be Evelyn reluctantly attends the “bachelorette party” thrown for her by wild child sister-in-law, Alison. While Evelyn’s disapproving friend Zoe cringes at the gifts of dildos and vibrators, flower-child Jessie suggests a friendly game of Truth or Dare. But when stripper-gram girl Chastity Lynn arrives to give a lap dance to the blushing bride, the truth about Evelyn’s secret desires is finally revealed.
In all actuality, “Just Mercy” should be labeled a “wall punching narrative.” Constantly, the flick throws high forms of adversity our way, amping up our most inner levels of discomfort. Filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton wonderfully paces the film in such a way that replicates the slow-burn nature of justice.
Seven years after George Miller's previous film, 'Mad Max: Fury Road', he dives back into the scene with an equally daring movie. Although not nearly as action-packed, his newest film 'Three Thousand Years Of Longing' challenges the typical format of a film, giving you a well-known plot in an unexpected way.
What are we willing to walk through to see our dreams come to pass? Our minds might be so wholly alive with the passions we carry and the plans we make to see these things become all we wish them to be, yet life doesn’t always want to come alongside. Instead, obstacles arise, both physical and mental, which attempt to dissuade us or even prevent us from moving forward, stalling or stagnating the momentum to achieve what we desire. The age-old question remains….can we overcome? Or will we BE overcome?
The repeated actions, the blood on the petals, the rustling under the floor…An ambient short horror film takes us into another realm.
A Black woman centered in a box office rom-com with a happy ending and no struggle love.
