Writer-director Bomani J. Story feature debut about a teenage scientist attempting to reanimate her loved ones is more interested in gore than pondering the metamorphic and cathartic potential.
The feature debut from California born-and-raised filmmaker Bomani J. Story, “The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster” is a contemporary reimagining ofTrading in 18th century Europe for a predominantly Black and working-class housing development, writer-director Story centers his film on Vicaria , a brilliant teenager who has lost both her mother and sibling to brutal gun violence.
Her patchwork approach to physically piecing together Chris’ lifeless body is a macabre undertaking. Flesh and viscera are grotesquely manipulated onscreen by Vicaria in a manner that seems more interested in presenting gore than underscoring the care that a character like her would most likely bring to the handling of her brother’s remains.
It’s a film that fails to ask what might it mean, narratively, to revive our dead, only to have them live — soullessly — in this futureless state. While created out of the twin powers of his sister’s grief and strong-willed nature, Chris as monster is condemned to monstrosity, only to once again be violently killed.
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