Oct 19, 2023
BELOVED - 1998
#jonathan demme#thandie newton#oprah winfrey#kimberly elise#beloved#toni morrison#underrated af#came out at the wrong time#ahead of its time#plus the trauma in this movie is the heaviest I've ever seen for specifically black generational trauma#the story SPOILERS...#enslaved black woman played by Oprah#named Sethe#murders her infant child born of SA#is later haunted by a haint/ghost/spectre of the child played by Thandie#another spooky black southern gothic movie#that isn't talked about as much as Eve's Bayou#paul newman said it was the best movie he'd ever seen#but it was predictably snubbed at the oscars#tough watch darkly beautiful#A+ aesthetic and performances#halloween reflections of blackness#black american gothic#the book is better of course#but the movie is good