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[celluloidrainbow]

PARIAH (2011) dir. Dee Rees Alike is a seventeen-year-old Black girl who hangs out at clubs with her openly lesbian friend Laura. Alike slowly and firmly comes to terms with her own identity as a butch lesbian, comfortable in baggy clothes and male underwear. Her Christian mother Audrey approves of neither Alike's clothes nor her friendship with Laura. Harboring growing suspicions about Alike's sexuality, Audrey forces her to wear feminine clothing and tries to stem any influence from Laura by pushing Alike to instead make friends with Bina, a girl from her church. (link in title)

[a-u-1]

Pariah, Dee Rees, 2011

[angelstills]

Pariah (2011)

[cinemafreeze]

Pariah (2011) - dir. Dee Rees

A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identies and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search got sexual expression.

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[moviemosaics]

Pariah

directed by Dee Rees, 2011

[maxwelltait]

Pariah (Rees, 2011)

[scenesandscreens]

Pariah (2011)

Director - Dee Rees, Cinematography - Bradford Young

“Heartbreak opens onto the sunrise for even breaking is opening and I am broken, I am open. Broken into the new life without pushing in, open to the possibilities within, pushing out. See the love shine in through my cracks? See the light shine out through me? I am broken, I am open, I am broken open. See the love light shining through me, shining through my cracks, through the gaps. My spirit takes journey, my spirit takes flight, could not have risen otherwise and I am not running, I am choosing. Running is not a choice from the breaking. Breaking is freeing, broken is freedom. I am not broken, I am free.“

[warningsine]