I did read the Twitter thread before hand. It was packed full of crazy allegations, intentional or unintentional typos and a "stripper language".
The movie version was a completely different experience. Although throughout there is a cringy black comedy, at the heart of it, it is also a horror movie about the dangers of human trafficking.
Zola, who is an African American exotic dancer and waitress is weary of Stefani, a white stripper who coaxes her to go on a trip to Florida to make money dancing. But it soon transpires that she was lying. She has a pimp, named only X in the film, who switches between an American and Nigerian accent throughout the film, and is a nasty piece of work.
It's a very interesting take on the supposed flashy stripper lifestyle and the hip hop culture that you've heard in your teenage years from all the rap songs. Human trafficking is no joke and prostitution is not glamorous in the least - and should not be considered a normal job, despite what modern day feminists believe.
Because Zola is pragmatic as a black stripper, she does not share the same care-free blasé nature that Stefani, a white woman, has.
But at the same time, she is young and wouldn't believe Stefani would lead her to where she eventually does.
Lesson learned, never take trips with a person you only just met.
There is a moment near the end where Zola and X drive down a road and an innocent black man is being brutally beaten by the police. I don't really know why this included in the film. Maybe it was to show that cops are too busy racially profiling and abusing/murdering innocents rather than pay attention to pimps trafficking women and attacking them? Since many of those same like to pay women for sex and occasionally abuse them too?
That was just my theory.
I did not care for the ending. It was too sudden with no real resolution.
The movie version was a completely different experience. Although throughout there is a cringy black comedy, at the heart of it, it is also a horror movie about the dangers of human trafficking.
Zola, who is an African American exotic dancer and waitress is weary of Stefani, a white stripper who coaxes her to go on a trip to Florida to make money dancing. But it soon transpires that she was lying. She has a pimp, named only X in the film, who switches between an American and Nigerian accent throughout the film, and is a nasty piece of work.
It's a very interesting take on the supposed flashy stripper lifestyle and the hip hop culture that you've heard in your teenage years from all the rap songs. Human trafficking is no joke and prostitution is not glamorous in the least - and should not be considered a normal job, despite what modern day feminists believe.
Because Zola is pragmatic as a black stripper, she does not share the same care-free blasé nature that Stefani, a white woman, has.
But at the same time, she is young and wouldn't believe Stefani would lead her to where she eventually does.
Lesson learned, never take trips with a person you only just met.
There is a moment near the end where Zola and X drive down a road and an innocent black man is being brutally beaten by the police. I don't really know why this included in the film. Maybe it was to show that cops are too busy racially profiling and abusing/murdering innocents rather than pay attention to pimps trafficking women and attacking them? Since many of those same like to pay women for sex and occasionally abuse them too?
That was just my theory.
I did not care for the ending. It was too sudden with no real resolution.