I love weird ass movies. I really love weird ass Black movies in particular. I had seen a billboard for this movie on Sunset a couple of weeks ago and decided to check it out after seeing people say how good it was. This was a creative movie that is something I am gonna have to watch a few more times because I was watching it in so much amazement at how people can write and direct things in certain ways. Visually this was good. The wardrobe, the scenery, the hairstyles. You couldn't tell what decade this was taking place in. I should start describing the movie.
This is about a dude named Fontaine who is a drug dealer. He has a younger brother that passed away and a mother whose voice you hear but never see her. He heads over to see this pimp named Slick Charles who does not seem very good at pimping. He gets into a fight with one of his women named Yo-Yo who as she is leaving hears gunshots. Fontaine gets murdered for hitting someone who owes him with his car. The next day Fontaine shows up again to Slick's place and he thinks he is being haunted since Fontaine should be dead. He even repeats the same things he did previously. Fontaine recalls seeing someone taken away by a weird van and tracks it down to a trap house. He, Yo-Yo, and Slick head inside and discover a secret lab and on one of the slabs is Fontaine's own dead body. Slick also snorts some mysterious powder and ends up laughing like a fool and killing a scientist.
Fontaine and his boys return the next day and the entire place is cleared out. He, Yo-Yo, and Slick head to a chicken spot and start noticing how happy everyone is. Slick says he has never seen Fontaine smile before and then realizes that something is in the chicken. Turns out a secret group is using Black things to mind control them. Music, food, hair products, grape drink, and television. This movie is perfect for a conspiracy brother. As this movie went on I could not figure out how it was going to end but the way it did was awesome and unsuspected. I already know that this will be a movie I watch a few times a year even just to listen to the music or pick out all the things I missed the first go around. This is the best movie Netflix has ever made.
John Boyega as Fontaine
Jamie Foxx as Slick Charles
Teyonah Parris as Yo-Yo
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