Nappily ever After: Cliche but still valuable media
Nappily Ever After is a Netflix original film about a women who cuts all her hair off and ends up being forced to "find herself." The film is a little bit cliche and I expected a little bit less predictability, nevertheless it still is a piece of media that aims to offset often trivialized perceptions of Black women.
The most applicably theory from class that drives the character development in the film is the crooked room theory. The protagonist is struggling with what it means to be a Black women because she has been told that beauty is xyz. So much so, that she has tried to mold herself into that women and became confused about who she really is.
While the film may be a little cliche, I think the message and challenges he protagonist experiences are still relevant. Ironically, she also works in a marketing agency in which she tries to change misogynistic representation of women in ads. Not only does she become conscious of the narrow images of beauty she was helping create, but she also begins to recognize them in her own life. For these reasons, I believe the film is a quality production.
While the film may be a little cliche, I think the message and challenges he protagonist experiences are still relevant. Ironically, she also works in a marketing agency in which she tries to change misogynistic representation of women in ads. Not only does she become conscious of the narrow images of beauty she was helping create, but she also begins to recognize them in her own life. For these reasons, I believe the film is a quality production.
I wrote my blog post on this same movie. I agree with you that it is a topic that needs to be discussed because appearance of hair is something that every black girl and woman in America deals with. This can be found in stores that only have a small section in an aisle labelled Ethnic Hair where you can find a few do-rags and five bottles of Olive Oil hair products. With that being said personally even though I know this is a Netflix film and it's bound to be poorly acted I thought that they could have done a better job with the film making it less of an exaggeration and cliche driven.
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