Another movie I was able to fit in during ABFF was "Mississippi Damned." Unlike "Pastor Brown" I'm not going to tell yall that you should see this movie as it was played at the festival.
Why?
THIS SHIT WAS THE MOST DEPRESSING MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN.
If you're depressed you will slit your wrists DURING this movie and folks around you will borrow your blade and do the same. It's just TOO.MUCH.
Period.
It's a story based on three sisters and their family life and the continued cycle of abuse that seems to touch EVERYONE. ALL.FORMS.OF.ABUSE. Every.single.one. You think it...they dealt with it. It was uncomfortable to watch and it makes you want to walk out which plenty of people did. I stayed because I just HAD to see the redeeming quality of the movie.And the redeeming quality was lacking.
I was sitting there thinking to myself that this mess was so unrealistic because all this couldn't EVER happen to one family and then at the end...the writer/director, Tina Mabry spoke and we found that yup...it's a true story that happened to her family.
WOW.
But I still don't wanna know about all of that. Seriously.
If they took this movie back to the cutting board and took out two or three of the abuse tragedies then it would be a movie worthy of watching. Why? THE SUPERB ACTING! Them people was ACKIN yall! SERIOUSLY. They did that. The acting was so good that I expect the actors to all be in some huge stuff soon cuz MAN! THEY.WERE.SOOOOOOOOO...GOOD! And if you have good actors...it's almost a shoe in that you had a good dang director. For real, for sure. Ms. Mabry is on top of her game cuz she knows how to get it OUT the actors man.
But that movie needs to be cut down. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction I know...too strange.
And tragic.
Not entertaining...at.all.
