‘Alice’ Review: Blaxploitation-Inspired Thriller Feels Like A Lost Opportunity [Sundance]
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theplaylist.netUp until the 1960s, Black folks, tricked by sinister white folks, were entrapped into servitude because of debts that they owed.
Southern whites took advantage of the climate of racism that dominated the area, and the inherent power dynamics such a system provided, to maintain a form of slavery over a century after its formal abolishment. “Alice,” the stylish, though dull, debut from Krystin Ver Linden, uses those real-life tales as a jumping off point for the director’s own Blaxploitation adventure.
READ MORE: Sundance 2022 Preview: 20 Must-See Movies From The Festival The titular Alice (Keke Palmer) lives on a Georgia plantation belonging to the malicious Paul Bennet (Johnny Lee Miller).
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