Veronica Hinsley is a successful writer who is soon running for president. Her sump is on the way, but ... she has nightmares about her people's past. Soon she will understand that she has become a victim of slavery, not only in a prophetic dream, but also in reality.
The film is divided into two parts: the first - a small settlement of the army of confidants during the civil war, contains blacks on the plantation. Unsuccessful escape attempts fail, as we could see in the first scene, shot in one long shot. In this eerie place, when the ancestors of modern African Americans, waited for the day when they would be free, and white people would stop using them for their own pleasures. Unfortunately, you will not see Abraham Lincoln freeing people of another race from 12 years of slavery. This is another film, please.
And the second is the reality as we know it today. The heroine fights for the rights of African Americans, despite the complaints of white politicians.
Actors: First of all, I liked the heroine with a twist, played by Jena Malone, wherever she appears, she is everywhere a crazy beauty.
And Janelle Monet poured out. She not only embodied the image of a slave, forcedly oppressed in the settlement, but also showed how her Veronica was preparing to escape, inventively resorting to yoga. Namaste.
Everything else: had experience in shooting short meters. Some viewers believe that the authors should have worked in the same style, but unfortunately they did not follow the usual route. And they made a breakthrough! As for me, it is very inventive to weave the heroine's dreams that turn into a waking nightmare. Of course, this may seem like a minus, but suddenly that dream of a happy family life in a big city, surrounded by her daughter and a loving husband, she dreamed, just in a settlement of white Confederates, lying in a bed with a military leader.
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