Nappily
Ever After 4/10
After
hearing reviews of this movie from my cousin JP and Miss Jackie I
decided to check out Nappily Ever After which is simultaneously
annoying and aggravating. I know that I watched this definitely than
a woman will, particularly Black women. I can shave my head any time
I want which I did just a week and a half ago. I lost chunks of hair
when I was little so I look at hair and hair loss in a different way
than women. Women take their hair super seriously. This movie is
about a woman that was raised to care more about how she appeared
than anything else. Her name is Violet and she is played by Sanaa
Lathan. She is dating this guy and is obsessed with making sure she
looks perfect all the time. She goes to get her hair done and this
little girl fucks with the bottles and she ends up with a head full
of relaxer. She gets a weave to repair the damage.
She
thinks he is going to propose to her and gets all kinds of ready and
it turns out he got her a dog. She flips her shit, he tells her that
he doesn't know who she is after two years, and they split up. I
totally get how he felt because there are people I still know till
this day I've known for half my life where I think “Yep. This is
about as much about this person as I'm ever gonna learn” as well as
realizing that some people just don't let you get close. She ends up
changing her hair to a blond style and meets up with a guy at the
bar. She is drunk off her ass and ends up going home with him. Stupid
movie stuff happens and she leaves and after a magical, mystical
Negro gives her a talking to she finds out that her ex is now
flirting with a coworker. She gets mad at him for flirting after she
just almost fucked some random ass dude!
She
ends up shaving the shit off completely and loses her shit. Over time
she gets more confident and this hair stylist dude that you know she
is gonna end up with gets closer to her. She ends up making him look
like shit in front of her mother and he leaves. Her ex ends up
walking in on Violet shaking her ass and the next thing you know they
fucking in the shower and he proposes to her which I totally get
because shower sex is bomb. “Ew! I'd never do that!” someone who
will never date me shouts at their phone. So she with ol' boy and her
mom is happy and suddenly dude becomes a super villain. He starts
acting dickish because this movie needs to wrap up and she decides to
start living for herself and since this is about a foot away from a
Tyler Perry style plot it means that she is gonna end up with the
stylist she should have been happy with in the first place.
The
crazy thing about this movie is that I still don't know why anyone
likes her other than her looks. She doesn't seem to have much of a
personality and has shown signs of some kind of mental illness and
very impulsive behavior. She gets drunk and hurts a guy which stops
her from having sex. Gets upset and drunkenly cuts her hair. Quits
her job with no warning. Acts both shitty and extremely nice to new
dudes daughter (that I swore was a boy). She is easily swayed. I get
it in the sense that it is Sanaa Lathan and she looks like Sanaa
Lathan. But other than that I really didn't see what was special
about her. I would have preferred if this ended with her marrying her
ex and getting the life her mother wanted for her...because I am
petty as fuck. And for any Black chicks reading this shave your head
and see how hard I hit on you. Like Miss Jackie said, this movie
would have been far more powerful ten years ago.
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