The Drama: A Marriage of Discomfort and Empathy
This is not a film, it’s a drop tower. A drop tower that you don’t get off of for the vast majority of its 106-minute runtime.

Two cousins are drawn to compete against each other with the aim of turning into men. Duardo, sensitive and argumentative, loses the battle, but when the opportunity comes, he will have to choose between defending his ideals or betraying them
This is not a film, it’s a drop tower. A drop tower that you don’t get off of for the vast majority of its 106-minute runtime.
White audiences saw Peola’s mixed-race passing as a Black woman’s struggle to be white. Black audiences saw it as the rebellion of a Black woman trying to gain privileges only given to white people.
The Olivia Wilde renaissance is upon us.
A direct fall into the white savior narrative