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Keke Palmer And Common Shift The Concept of Freedom In New Movie, 'Alice'

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Keke Palmer and Common made the bold choice to turn the slave narrative on its head. Their new film Alice, which already made waves at Sundance in January, tells the story of a woman who breaks out of bondage and discovers freedom in the most unexpected way possible, “I think it’s important that we actually look at history and I think it’s important, especially for Black people, that they feel safe, that they can explore history in a way that’s not going to make them feel bogged down and victimized,” Palmer said of her new film.

Palmer stars as the titular Alice, a slave living on a Georgia plantation that flees captivity after a violent encounter with her owner.

Stumbling through the woods she encounters a highway…soon to discover that it is actually 1973 and slavery has been abolished for over 100 years.

Common portrays her rescuer Frank, who acclimates Alice to the modern world, where she quickly comprehends the lies that have kept her in bondage and the promise of Black liberation. “I think that the way that Black American history as it pertains to slavery is even told, I think that’s a part of making us not want to talk about it,” Palmer observed.

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