![]() ![]() Girl dances like she just took a shit in her overalls.Ĭarrie: OK, Maya, I gotta disagree with you on this one.Girl realizes that she can’t even go grocery shopping without being hit on. ![]() Maya: Poor Mollie, who exists to say expositional things that REALLY CRITIQUE (so intersectional!) the form and structure of the movie and horror movies in general, says “WoooooAlso NOTHING about this movie has been a straight girl’s dream come true. Maya: FUCK this is some awkward, rhythm-less dancing!Īnd I CANNOT believe she is going to go away on a trip with some stranger after the second date. I’m a vegetarian and not once has anyone stopped eating meat in front of me just because I’m a vegetarian, nor would I expect them to. This just in: you can fuck a vegan without also being a vegan. Because Noa is ridiculous, she immediately makes moves like she’s going to toss her entire meal out and acts like Steve thinks she’s unclean. Steven, being a totally chill, normal human being turns down Noa’s offer of short ribs by ominously saying he doesn’t eat animals. Maya: Date number two has the pair in Noa’s apartment eating take out. Maya: Another confession! While this scene was going on, you and I were like LOL who gets hit on in a grocery store.Īnd then, I just remembered: I do, but only when my tattoos are covered! I like to mentally block out men hitting on me when they are trying to get between me and my jalapeño cheddar bagels. Maya: Confession, I’m not into Sebastian Stan!Ĭarrie: Well, then you will find the end of this film to be very satisfying. Steve shows up in a grocery store and talks Noa into eating a grape and giving him her number. This is a common rom-com trope but it has added problematic layers because Mollie is the only Black woman, and one of the only two Black characters, in the movie. In narrative terms Mollie exists only to be Noa’s bestie. I also like that there are hints of Mollie having her own life – but they are merely hints. I like that the important relationship in the movie is between Noa and Mollie, not between Noa and a romantic partner. To me, the friendship between Noa and Mollie feels lived in because they do things I do with my friends, particularly telling each other they love each other and checking up on each other for safety. “Fuck the Beast! I am the beast!” says Noa, laughing. We now proceed to boxing class, where we meet Noa’s Black Best Friend, Mollie, and get to see her and Noa unpacking that “Disney Bullshit.” Giving a BIPOC the “God, he’s the worst” look isn’t allyship! Maya: I would note, because I’m going to continue to be skeptical of the feminist bona fides of this movie, Noa says nothing while Chad of the Scarf Covered in Noodle Sauce says racist nonsense about/to the Asian waitress. Women are expected to back up other women, as seen in a moment of camaraderie between Noa and the waitress.Food can be an avenue of pretension and control.On the other hand, the figure we expect to be violent, that of a shadowy person walking behind Noa as she goes to her car, keys laced between fingers (don’t do that, you guys!) is a friendly individual with a baby.The date seems awful and yet his calling Noa a “stuck-up bitch” at its conclusion is a moment of verbal violence that stuns Noa and viewer with its sudden escalation.Men are unpredictable and women have to be on edge all the damn time. ![]() The movie opens on the Date From Hell, a date which was doomed before it began because the dude has already asked Noa to bring cash for dinner and he is, apparently, late.Įven though this date is, on the surface, a normal shitty date, it tidily sets the tone for the rest of the movie by establishing certain things: His character is named Steve, and you cannot tell me that the screenwriter did not know what they were doing when they named him. Noa is about to give up dating when she meets the handsome and charming Sebastian Stan in a grocery store and they hit it off. Our story begins with Noa, a sweet, petite White woman played by Daisy Edgar-Jones. Always happy to see women behind the camera! This entire movie plot is spoiler territory so if you want to go in unspoiled, look away, people, because Maya and I are spoiling it ALL.īehold: Black Women Have to Do Everything: The Movie, more officially known as Fresh, written by Lauryn Kahn and directed by Mimi Cave. Accordingly, we took a break from romance (this movie is NOT A ROMANCE!) and watched a movie that says that dating is Hell, friendship is magic, feminism should be intersectional, and some people are gross. Maya and I share an interest in horror, and goodness knows the Pink Palace of Bitches is full of people with an interest in Sebastian Stan. We are recapping The Whole Meal Film here so get ready. CW/TW: This is a horror movie about cannibalism and terrible dates. ![]()
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