is meticulously framed and gorgeously lit for optimum cinematic appeal. That so many of those shots are of Black bodies being beaten and lynched, hung and raped and otherwise brutalized is a fact that has and will prove divisive among viewers.The thriller, from writer-director duo Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz, first introduces Janelle Monáe as Eden, a woman enslaved on a «reformer plantation» of the eponymous era.
There, she endures unrelenting violence at the hands of white Confederate soldiers. An early scene shows her being branded after attempting to escape.
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