Palmer gives it a game, respectable attempt, but Common gives the worst performance of his career. The two leads have zero chemistry, and they’re forced to utter such atrocious dialogue that you feel sorry for them. “They’ll drill holes in your brain!” he tells her. She sentences Alice to a 72-hour psychiatric evaluation before Frank helps her escape. This leads to an emergency room scene with a hilarious, inept cameo by the kind of blonde nurse you’d find in a hospital run by Roger Corman. She doesn’t know what year it is and she pukes on his seats. Here’s this bloodied woman, dressed like Kizzy from “Roots” and freaking out because she’s never been in a truck before.
It’s revealed that we’re in 1973, the year of Tamara Dobson’s Cleopatra Jones and Pam Grier’s Coffy. This scene is so ineptly filmed that any shock of Alice suddenly discovering a highway during slavery times is lost.
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The movie is 40 minutes old before she is almost crushed by a truck driven by Frank (Common). If you’ve seen that trailer, you know that Alice’s escape culminates with her running right into a paved road. It would have if it were made in the year it takes place. A movie like this should unapologetically provoke their discomfort. Instead, it’s unwilling to upset white viewers who consider themselves racial allies. “Alice” is not concerned with African-American viewers sick and tired of slavery scenes and downtrodden narratives. It’s a premonition that the righteous Black revenge the trailer promised is going to be profoundly dissatisfying. However, Ver Linden’s camera gets shy when, in retribution, Alice shoves a broken piece of glass into her enslaver’s eye before escaping. Just before releasing her days later, Bennet pisses in her face. We do, however, get to see Alice beaten, dragged, and hogtied to a pole before put in a hideous facial contraption. Mercifully, we’re spared having to sit through scenes of sexual assault. Bennet has taught Alice to read so she can read to him every Sunday before he rapes her. This is what happens when you’re not loyal, he warns. Paul Bennet ( Jonny Lee Miller) commands that his cook, Alice ( Keke Palmer) look at the deceased man. The dead body of a man who attempted to escape is in the background, partially blurred so as to rob the image of any power. This time, she’s humming away as she sweeps the porch of the master’s house. We usually don’t get to see this singer onscreen, but her purpose is always to underscore Black suffering.
One of those “domestics” even provides the clichéd “hmmmmmmm-HMMMMMMMM!” Black lady humming on the soundtrack.
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