I've seen Is God Is and Backrooms (another ticket I got for free) over the course of the past 2 days.
Black men if you want to vent your rage at a violent apathetic and IRRESPONSIBLE portrayal of the black man as a monster in film...
Backrooms is your movie , not Is God Is.
Is God Is has black men who are sympathetic.
Is God Is has black men who aid the black women on their journey (albeit begrudgingly)
Is God Is has more than one black person in it (and more than one black man) 🙄
Is God Is has black women who are also villains
Is God Is was made by a black woman with an entirely black cast for black people.
I haven't looked up the creators of Backrooms yet, but I'd bet serious money it was an assortment of white guys.
⚠️Spoiler warning for this fuckass movie (like the whole ending I don't give a shit) ⚠️
My friend told me after we left that based on the YouTube property and the game the original monster was called the LifeForm and it was a bunch of wires
IN THE MOVIE IT'S LITERALLY A GIANT PEOPLE EATING PUPPET VERSION OF CHIWETEL EJGIFOR!!
IT'S HIS WHOLE FUCKING FACE!!!
Oh and also they make the BLACK MAN become randomly cannibalistic?!! And the only person we see him attempt to eat is surprise A WHITE MAN! (or like a stuffing version of him.. y'all I don't fucking know) White people literally have a history of eating US not the other way around who wrote this shit?!!!!!
Also I shit you not the entire climax of this movie revolves around a giant man-eating pirate puppet thing (with a white man underneath btw) that has CHIWETEL EJGIFOR'S (a black man) FACE
trying to eat a white woman................
WHAT THE EVER LOVING FUCK?!!!!
Oh and the lesson the black man learns is that he was destined to be a miserable person because he hurts people didn't want to change (he's also a divorcee with a white wife....I don't need to say anything).
And the white woman gives up on him (she's his therapist) and learns she can't save everybody
😤
Listen ,
Is God Is tells the REAL experiences that black women have within our community while also not absolving the community (including other black women) of its tendency to protect and coddle abusers who hurt our community. It's trying to actually start a conversation, not demonize.
Backrooms is a fantasy psychological thriller that puts white men's evil and irrational fears (based on their own made up fucking narratives usually reflecting their own history) about black men on a fifty foot screen. Every harmful stereotype and every disturbing distortion is done purely for shock value and a dollar.
All for a "and the cycle will just continue 😵💫" ass ending.
I'm so glad I didn't pay for this shit.
I feel dirty
Next weekend I'm going to see I love boosters even if I have to go by myself I need to give a black person my money