I find this movie very, very bizarre. I love Rebecca Hall, as an actress, and have eagerly watched almost everything she has done; she is particularly incredible in The Gift.
But this movie leaves me so flat because I just don't understand the point at all. The story becomes boring and trite within the first 20 minutes: a woman passing as white because she can? The weirdest thing at all is that Ruth Negga, a competent actress, doesn't appear white at all. She looks like what she is: a black woman, albeit light skinned, proud of the fact that she is able to pass as white? She looks like a black woman sporting white makeup; which all the more leads me to the question? What is the movie, and Hall in particular, trying to prove?
Beyond strange.........
But this movie leaves me so flat because I just don't understand the point at all. The story becomes boring and trite within the first 20 minutes: a woman passing as white because she can? The weirdest thing at all is that Ruth Negga, a competent actress, doesn't appear white at all. She looks like what she is: a black woman, albeit light skinned, proud of the fact that she is able to pass as white? She looks like a black woman sporting white makeup; which all the more leads me to the question? What is the movie, and Hall in particular, trying to prove?
Beyond strange.........