‘Is God Is’ Tackles Black Femicide Head On As High-Profile Cases Continue To Rise
What Aleshea Harris’s 'Is God Is' makes plain about Black femicide, the Black church, and a film canon that has spent decades asking Black women to read their own endurance as holiness. The post ‘Is God Is’ Tackles Black Femicide Head On As High-Profile Cases Continue To Rise appeared first on MadameNoire.
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In writer-director Aleshea Harris’s film, Is God Is, twin sisters have been sent by their dying mother to kill the father who tried to burn their mother alive.
“This is destiny sh-t,” says Racine of the crusade their dying mother has handed them.
The mission to find their father, whom they call the Monster, becomes the spine of the film. It is a revenge story unlike anything Black cinema has offered before, one that hands Black women our anger rather than asking us to bury it.
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