investigating them and digesting them as a society helps us move forward Yet sometimes the path from recognizing a problem to implementing effective solutions can be long and tortuous for those suffering for whom this problem occupies the center of their lives That is what has happened with «violencia vicaria» a term coined in 2012 by the Argentine psychologist and forensic expert Sonia Vaccaro to refer to violence «directed against one person (usually children) to hurt another (the mother)» Vaccaro said that gender violence underwent the same process: «At first but over time it was understood that other types Rosalía González has observed that women «are giving it a name and identifying more what happens to them» Vicarious violence is categorized by researchers as gender violence in the sense that it is directed against women and indirectly against the children That does not mean that there aren’t mothers who abuse and kill children; mothers commit a significant number of filicides and neonaticides most women who have committed these crimes faced «complex psychological «they usually regret their act and regret not having sought help from their family and health professionals» But are there cases of these crimes carried out by a woman out of revenge against her ex-partner but it is important to highlight that no social pattern has not been identified in this case contrary to vicarious violence by men against women But what happens when vicarious violence finds its way into the private sphere of families Is there a profile of the aggressors and of the victims Where are the roots of this problem and what can we do about it What usually makes headlines are extreme cases of vicarious violence – the murder of children to irreversibly harm the mother – which according to data from April has already claimed 57 lives in Spain since 2013 the reality is that the most common form is regular or everyday vicarious violence The aggressor turns the children into mere objects and instruments to harm the woman That kind of violence involves various strategies such as physical violence against the mother or the children discrediting and degrading the figure of the mother denial of parental authorization for any medical treatment needed by the child as well as neglecting the children or putting them in danger threats to remove custody or make it impossible to see the children again… the list is very long The ultimate objective of such acts is «to subjugate the woman because the man believes he has the right a psychologist specialized in gender violence «Many women think that [the gender violence they suffer] will disappear once their relationship ends they discover not only that does it not end but that it begins to take much more serious forms» As Vaccaro explains in her book Violencia Vicaria at the center of this violence is the maintenance of «power control and submission relations» by the aggressor after the separation turning the children into mere objects and instruments to harm the woman one mission of MAMI and other victims’ associations is to work on the «feeling of guilt of the mothers» and «to make them understand that their children are weapons» that «their abuser is going to use» It is tempting to ask whether there is a profile of the typical aggressor or victim of daily vicarious violence The Spain-focused study Vicarious Violence: An irreversible blow against mothers has provided some data on the men who exercise extreme vicarious violence and end up murdering minors the aggressor is between 30 and 50 years old of Spanish nationality in 68% of the cases and has a broad range of educational background Data show a fairly similar number of employed and unemployed men; most are separated the perpetrator of the crime is the biological father of the victims and most do not show alcohol or drug use or mental psychopathology 74% of them have a history of gender violence against the mother of the children when it comes to extreme vicarious violence research and empirical evidence are still lacking on the behavior of the aggressors after the murder as 48% of them take their own lives or try to do so this behavior is highly rejected by society and the perpetrators are unable to accept the consequences She believes there are also common traits in abusers these men have a personality and a way of understanding the world where the woman is the center and they seek to establish that same dependence in their victims in order to have more control and dominance so does that power and their whole meaning in life» Vaccaro talks about a lack of repentance and empathy and the absence of a true father-child bond The murderer does not commit suicide in the clinical sense using the Greek myth of Narcissus to explain the egocentrism and narcissism of this type of man: «Killing is a way to display their power to show that they’re the ones who decide on the life and death» of their offspring and «they will avoid giving answers and explanations about their actions» The roots of vicarious violence come from the Roman family model Vaccaro’s conclusions resonate with the roots of vicarious violence where the figure of the paterfamilias had absolute power over his wife and children Research carried out in the United Kingdom came to similar conclusions: Today’s phenomenon stems from patriarchal and archaic family structures where men who commit vicarious violence «associate the family with their masculinity valued and considered as an achievement of power» On the other side of this dark corner of historical inheritances and human psyche are the victims and a society that although making progress on their protection With extreme violence «there is nothing to do According to the report Vicarious Violence: An irreversible blow against mothers the majority of the murdered children were between 0 and 5 years old and 96% had never received an evaluation from a professional psychological or social services about their situation authorities had been alerted about the danger none of the victims were under active protection The psychological impact of daily vicarious violence on minors who suffer this exploitation is devastating It depends on various factors such as «the time of exposure the social circle and whether or not they are aware of being used» noting the developmental consequences at all levels post-traumatic stress and a negative impact on attachment which do not fade with time and continue into adulthood As to the mothers who are experiencing a situation of vicarious violence MAMI’s González recommends these women «adopt a zero contact strategy «Our philosophy is to take care of ourselves in order to be able to fight» and not to give up experts agree that vicarious violence is increasing although it remains difficult to identify and report which makes it even more urgent to continue working on preventing it Clear progress has been made «in terms of rights and protection of the children and the creation of resources and teams of experts The studies and sources consulted in Spain call for greater efforts on the part of the administration and the justice system to prevent institutional violence accused of false parental alienation syndrome and ruined by judicial processes The rights of the father continue to prevail over the well-being of the minors there is a lack of listening and credibility given to the children’s story and more research precautionary measures and economic resources are needed it is very important that institutions fully accept «the fact that a mother of minors suffers gender violence puts her children at serious risk» when we see how «the abusers claim custody of their children but as a way of continuing to extend the violence they inflict on the mother through these children» The collaboration of health and educational centers is essential Greater training in gender perspective is necessary at all levels And González says that victim support groups and communities are also a compass for mothers where members feel that «each child is like their own» This content is part of a collaboration agreement of ‘WorldCrunch’, with the magazine ‘Ethic’. Read the original at this link Check out the new Weekend Update Page to see a list compiled of the movies coming out this weekend and be directed to the Fandango page for that film The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster has some of the familiar tropes found in the class monster movies in the old Universal catalog The story follows a girl named Vicaria (Laya DeLeon Hayes) a gifted girl living in a terrible neighborhood who has been a victim of violence within the community for as far back as she can remember Her mother what killed out in the open as Vicaria sat with her Vicaria’s father has also had difficulty dealing with the death in his family What if she can solve the problems of her family Story is clearly inspired by the Mary Shelley classic Romanticist novel it seems to be missing some key aspects of the narrative V has the same (if not contemporary) swagger of a young Victor Frankenstein she is vehement about what she believes in but many iterations of Victor’s character has been about his battle with God It was somewhat disappointing to see that a younger version of this character a strong headed teen living in a hellscape of an urban setting didn’t once address that there is no God in the Godless neighborhood she lives in Her family (her friends and her father) even sit down to dinner and say grace Victor’s atheism is such a vital internal struggle that it felt like a miss within the film for not including it The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster does Though all of those can be tied together as symptoms of a larger problem it is still quite a few weighty subjects to address Like some of the recent great horror filmmakers who have created layered horror films Story has entered the pantheon of the likes of Jordan Peele a horrific reality which seems to ground the subtext and Story has done extremely well to find that voice Aside from a great subtextual films about the horrors that many young black people have to live through There is certainly some room to up the horror game within it ‘Chris’ (The Monster) character design seems like there are some interesting takes on the classic Gollum There is a train of thought that within horror the mind can fill in the gaps and make things more horrific but this really just felt like the audience deserved to see more getting back up and strangling his victims He would seemingly leave burn marks on this victim’s flesh which was interesting enough but it was the only time the limitations of this small budget film was felt Story did the best he could with what he had but a lot of the ‘money shots’ in the film were too brief who has certainly proved himself with this film can do when he’s given a little more room to operate At a perfect run time of one and a half hours exciting and interesting take on the iconic story himself is certainly a new voice in filmmaking worth listening to that with Universal having dropped the failed ‘Dark Universe’ reboot they had for all their classic movie monsters that perhaps this is the route they should consider topical and contemporary versions of the characters where small filmmaking is better than massive budgets and Tom Cruise University of Notre Dame Notre Dame Magazine Other days I would sit at the microfilm reader and weep,” says William Cavanaugh ’84 Cavanaugh had just returned from serving as a Holy Cross Associate in Chile and was preparing to begin his doctoral studies in theology then the director of Notre Dame’s Center for Civil and Human Rights He would help the human rights center index 84 microfilm rolls containing hundreds of thousands of pages that documented the horrific human rights violations committed by Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet I would read accounts of torture,” says Cavanaugh maybe two times a week.” His years in Chile had left him intimately familiar with the impact of these crimes on mothers and fathers His next-door neighbor had been picked up by security forces and was never seen again And he left behind a wife and a 1-year-old son a human rights office set up by Cardinal Raúl Silva soon after Pinochet’s violent 1973 coup that kept the records of the regime’s human rights abuse — ultimately more than 30,000 cases of disappearances In meeting after meeting with the bereaved family members who would line the halls of their offices attached to the Cathedral in Santiago the Vicaría’s meticulous documentation program helped to ensure that the wronged would not also be the forgotten Through an agreement between the Vicaría and the order of Holy Cross those documents were microfilmed and smuggled by Father Lewers to South Bend for safekeeping When the Pinochet dictatorship ended unexpectedly in a 1988 referendum the Vicaría’s original files became the lifeblood of the new president Patricio Aylwin’s National Commission on Truth and Reconciliation The truth commission’s 1991 report includes details surrounding the disappearance of the young man written about by Nathan Stone ’79 in the accompanying article: Héctor Marcial Garay Hermosilla was arrested by “unidentified agents” at his home on July 8 the home of the National Stadium infamously converted to a detention and torture center The commission deemed Tito to be a victim of “human rights violations committed by government agents.” President Aylwin sought to share the Chilean experience as a model for other societies making the painful transition from dictatorship to democracy Given Notre Dame’s role in safekeeping the files of the Vicaría Aylwin turned to the University’s Center for Civil and Human Rights to publish the truth commission report’s official English translation The center’s translation helped to launch the academic field of transitional justice — how societies establish truth reparations and guarantees of no repetition after periods of gross human rights violations Notre Dame’s center also contributed directly to other efforts at reconciliation around the globe sent Notre Dame student Judith Robb Cohen ’95LL.M to hand-deliver a copy of the center’s translated report to the South African Minister of Justice The minister used the report of the Chilean experience to help shape South Africa’s post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission the center joined the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru to publish an English translation of Peru’s influential truth commission report the University’s human rights center joined the New York City-based International Center for Transitional Justice to launch a graphic-enriched online version of the Peruvian report’s translation making it accessible to scholars and practitioners worldwide And since its founding by Father Lewers in 1988 Notre Dame Law School’s master of laws (LL.M.) program in international human rights law has enabled more than 400 lawyers from over 100 countries to study the transitional justice efforts of Chile Peru and other nations seeking accountability and reconciliation Notre Dame’s copy of the Vicaría’s archives provided an additional link to Nathan Stone’s story of a distraught mother seeking her disappeared son the archive of the Vicaría and the testimony of Inelia Wound deeply into microfilm roll number 8 is document #8389 The heartbroken relatives accuse him of complicity in the disappearance of Tito and “the 119,” young Chileans the Pinochet regime insisted had not disappeared but had fled the country The next document includes Tito’s black-and-white school photo lovingly placed in the archive in the hope that justice would one day prevail sentenced to more than 500 years for his crimes against humanity Sean O’Brien is assistant director of Notre Dame’s Center for Civil and Human Rights and a concurrent assistant professor of law The magazine welcomes comments, but we do ask that they be on topic and civil. Read our full comment policy Notre Dame Magazine © 2025 University of Notre Dame Reviews To be Black is to acknowledge the intrinsic impact that violence has, and continues to have, on our culture and history. To be Black is to see your identity relentlessly caricatured for propaganda but to claim your power in the face of deniers. Yet the cycles of mourning forced upon Black communities yield anger, exhaustion, and the question of how and where to channel it. Writer/director Bomani J. Story’s debut feature “The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster,” confronts these realities through an Afro-surrealist sci-fi escapade.  Vicaria (Laya DeLeon Hayes) is a precocious teenager with a penchant for science. She believes that death can be cured. When her older brother, Chris (Edem Atsu-Swanzy) she pursues her theory and brings him back to life But what she discovers through his reanimation is not the sibling she knew He is a shell—a monster of her own creation—and as her community reels from the violent spawn of her loss she embarks on a path of danger and denial.  There is a clear allusion to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in the foundation of the film’s script like The Modern Prometheus being written on Vicaria’s notebook the film shows its true heart is in the reimagining and modernization of the “tragic monster.” Though Chris’ death is the film’s inciting incident generational trauma and the desire to supersede it is its lifeblood The opening sequence contains a montage of emotional vignettes as Vicaria details her mother’s death by street violence and laments that “death is the disease that broke [her] family.” It’s not only exposition that drives home these themes but also the film’s scope in painting a full portrait of the community showing it through grit and love alike.  Vicaria’s relationship with her father functions alongside their shared grief as the film’s emotional core, as well as her close and often witty relationship with Aisha (Reilly Brooke Stith), Chris’ grieving girlfriend. On the opposing side are the local gangbangers, including Kango (Denzel Whitaker) and enforcer Jamaal (Keith Holliday) Yet Story’s script refuses to stereotype them as two-dimensional archetypal antagonists and the thoughtfulness put into the supporting plots and cast pays off.  in addition to being a wonderful scream queen when it’s called for is versatile through everything the film requires She is amusing in the asides of pure scientific mania and creates the film’s gravity with a firm tone and stiff upper lip against the odds and piercing despair in the narrative’s emotional valleys.  “The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster” has fun with its mad scientist nostalgia and a high magnitude score give way to kinetic energy that counters the day-to-day sequences well the film takes us through a community as a microcosm of culture The script can be a bit opaque when trying to squeeze in as many thesis-supporting scenarios as possible but it also handles nuanced topics with grace like the symbiotic relationship between underserved communities and drug abuse And while the film’s desire to explain itself softens its edge a bit “The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster” is a soulful hooded Black man who silently wanders the community—a familiar cultural figure of unwarranted fear This film’s intelligence lies in its subversion of expectation Chris validates a stereotyped image against his will and by doing so creating helpless fear and a tragic monster he functions more as a phantom than a true terror We see the trail of evidence he’s left behind but his actions are more symbolic of the repercussions of cycles of disenfranchisement—the true disease of Vicaria’s monster which cuts through the film with poignant vigor Now playing in theaters and available on demand.  Peyton Robinson is a freelance film writer based in Chicago “The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster” is an audacious retelling of the “Frankenstein” story the kind of chance-taking movie that more filmmakers should risk Story updates the Mary Shelley novel about bringing the dead back to life — playing God in some respects — by setting it in the present (The famous 1931 “Frankenstein” strayed far from the novel and was so influential it has become the touchstone for most other adaptations.) He also updates the motivation for reanimation Where Victor Frankenstein was driven at least partly by ego here the motivation is both more urgent and more heartbreaking: Vicaria (Laya DeLeon Hayes) 12 News' Lin Sue Flood moved on: 'I loved what I did. But I really love what I do now' What is 'The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster' about?Vicaria's ambitions are actually bigger than that Her mother was shot to death years earlier while holding Vicaria in her arms Her brother Chris (Edem Atsu-Swanzy) was gunned down while trying to flee police descends into an addiction that he can’t kick And she is broken enough — and smart enough — to try something outrageous along with other body parts (death comes fast in her neighborhood as one character says) and sets about trying to reconstruct him One of the few Black students at a school for gifted kids Vicaria’s intelligence is questioned and her ideas shot down by a white teacher (Beth Felice) who eventually calls security to drag Vicaria out of the classroom for daring to challenge her This leads to one of the more affecting scenes in the film when the teacher meets with Donald and Vicaria and suggests that Vicaria might be happier at a different school demanding one thing of the teacher: “TEACH.” Donald knows that he is struggling (Vicaria knows but his loyalty to his daughter and his fight for her future are moving Another problem is Kango (Denzel Whitaker) He supplies Donald with drugs and commands a small band of soldiers (one of whom carries an ever-present machete) Vicaria doesn’t concern herself much with this And grisly work it is — Story doesn’t shy away from gore We see bits and pieces of body parts as Vicaria stitches them together when Vicaria succeeds in bringing Chris back to life We see only enough to know that this is not right and it’s mysterious enough to keep the audience curious Chris is not the same person — how could he be He has superhuman strength and superhuman pain not a combination that can lead to anything good His actions lead Vicaria to run afoul of Kango Are these the 100 greatest movies ever? See if you agree with this Arizona author's picks Story’s version of Shelley’s novel patiently lays the groundwork for Vicaria’s motivation to somehow rise above the blight and the death and the destruction that has haunted her life Hayes’ performance imbues the character with the necessary intelligence such an undertaking would require but also the defiant attitude her circumstances have honed earning her a slap from one of his soldiers giving him a complexity that makes him far more interesting than a garden-variety drug dealer “The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster” is a horror movie with the courage to challenge its audience to make it see the horrors not just in the monster but in the societal inequities that ultimately created him Reach Goodykoontz at bill.goodykoontz@arizonarepublic.com. Facebook: facebook.com/GoodyOnFilm. Twitter: @goodyk Subscribe to azcentral.com today Which language would you like to use this site in José Zalaquett was a prominent lawyer and academic He initiated his human rights work as a law student campaigning for Salvador Allende in Chile Upon Allende’s election as president in 1970 which he left for a post at the university General Augusto Pinochet launched a violent military coup which forcibly ousted the elected government of Allende and imposed a military dictatorship from 1973 to 1990 José Zalaquett founded the Committee for Peace to help the victims of the military regime later known as the Vicaría de la Solidaridad was the foremost human rights organization operating in Chile throughout the dictatorship The Vicaría defended hundreds of detainees and helped family members of the disappeared to demand legally the whereabouts of their loved ones José Zalaquett was imprisoned in 1975 and 1976 He left Chile with two military officers walking him all the way to his plane where they sat him down and buckled his seatbelt He moved first to France and then to the USA where he joined Amnesty International to demand with many other Chilean exiles an end to Pinochet’s dictatorship and raise awareness internationally about the situation in his home country became Chair of the International Executive Committee of Amnesty International José Zalaquett was a prominent human rights lawyer who leaves behind an enormous legacy as a Chair of the international Board and later as a Deputy Secretary General His wisdom and passion to fight for the rights of people have been an inspiration for Amnesty’s movement In 1990 José Zalaquett was appointed to the National Commission on Truth and Reconciliation and with his nine colleagues wrote a report on the fate of the victims of the Pinochet regime he became an internationally respected authority on truth and reconciliation advising similar human rights commissions on three continents From 2001-2005 José served as a Commissioner at Inter-American Commission on Human Rights He was also member of the International Commission of Jurists and of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Transparency and Public Probity and a board member of the Chilean chapter of Transparency International José Zalaquett conducted human rights missions to numerous countries in Africa He wrote extensively about human rights in books He was a prominent professor at different universities José Zalaquett received honorary doctorates from the University of Notre Dame and the City University of New York His awards include a MacArthur Foundation award (1990 to 1995) the UNESCO Prize for the Teaching of Human Rights (1994) and the National Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences (Chile “José Zalaquett was a prominent human rights lawyer who leaves behind an enormous legacy His wisdom and passion to fight for the rights of people have been an inspiration for Amnesty’s movement,” said Sarah Beamish Amnesty International’s Chair of the International Board Everyone at Amnesty International would like to express our deepest condolences to Pepe Zalaquett’s family He has left an immense legacy that will continue to guide our struggles for human rights For more information or to arrange an interview, contact Amnesty International press office: [email protected] Together we can fight for human rights everywhere Your donation can transform the lives of millions If you are talented and passionate about human rights then Amnesty International wants to hear from you ShareSaveLeadershipForbesWomenHow Identifying An Underserved Niche Created A Lucrative Business Opportunity For This Multicultural AgencyByMelissa Houston focusing on shepherding general market brands through the ever-changing media landscape she could have never imagined a career like this existed one of the most prominent women of the Mexican War of Independence seeks to work with clients and personalities that have been historically overlooked It is important for these communications experts to leave a legacy and inspire young Latina girls to follow their dreams This means drilling down to a segment of a larger market defined by its own specific needs or identity that makes it different from the market at large It is a great way to differentiate what you offer from your competition Specializing your PR firm will help you attract the type of clients that you want to serve When there is a need that isn’t being served it is easier to address that need to grow a successful PR agency the need was there to represent underserved cultures The more critical the needs of the market are Having a diverse team brings in new perspectives that can help companies identify their customer’s unmet needs and address them accordingly the benefits to the agency itself are maximizing productivity The bottom line is either starting a glamourous career in public relations or starting your own PR agency, Priscila and Josie want you to know that no matter how large 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The opinions expressed in this article are not intended to replace any professional or expert accounting and/or tax advice whatsoever.  Laya DeLeon Hayes is an actress to watch. She currently plays Queen Latifah’s daughter on the hit CBS show The Equalizer and now she is starring in the horror flick The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster. Written and directed by Bomani J. Story, the movie is a re-imagination of Frankenstein with Laya DeLeon Hayes as Vicaria, the scientist. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina but raised in Los Angeles, the 18-year-old brought the haunting to film to life that smoothly tackles race, gender and death.  BET: How did you land the lead role in The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster? I’m a fan of it now. [Laughs] I’m a fan of doing horror. But before this, honestly, I'm pretty much a scaredy cat. I would get scared going to the movie theaters to see a horror movie. But if anything, this has opened my eyes to how exhilarating the genre can be, not just to watch it, but to be able to create a horror film was one of the most fulfilling things I've ever done. So, I hope to do more in the future. BET: Why should the BET audience support The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster? They should support The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster because we need to support Black art. Also, it relates to what's going on in our own lives, you don't get to see many characters like this, who are full people and have duality. There is juxtaposition all over our film. And I think that when you see that movie, you'll be able to relate to these characters in a way that a different audience wouldn't be able to. The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster is in theaters on June 9 and On Demand and digital on June 23. Community Safety Department Director To Resign Amid Tension With Cambridge Police Department From Lab to Startup: Harvard’s Office of Technology Development Paves the Way for Research Commercialization People’s Forum on Graduation Readiness Held After Vote to Eliminate MCAS 8 Takeaways From Harvard’s Task Force Reports “The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster” is an explosively powerful feature length directorial debut from Bomani J Story that turns the Mary Shelly classic novel “Frankenstein” on its head Complicating the original tale by forcing the characters to exist in a world that automatically doesn’t accept them this film redefines what a monster is for audiences viewers of “The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster” are introduced to the film’s main theme as it opens to a still shot of a dead body “Death is a disease” is whispered for viewers to ponder until the body is dragged away then narrates about how death has slowly destroyed her family has become addicted to drugs as an attempt to ease the suffering from losing the family members which he held so dear has other ideas for how to respond to this plague that has destroyed her family we just have yet to figure out how to cure it She then assumes the role of Victor Frankenstein from the original classic and works to reanimate the dead family and friends that she has lost initially becoming full of elation at her achievement and the fact that what she loved has returned to her as she watches the husk of her dead brother murder those both deserving and undeserving Vicaria must face the fact that perhaps she should not cheat death In “The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster,” there is a notable amount of consideration put into worldbuilding whether through the physical sets or the cultural background of the setting The neighborhood where Vicaria and her family and friends live is developed very early on in the film as a lively place full of a diverse range of characters From innocent children chasing each other down the streets with water guns to drug dealers sending gang members on “assignments,” the complexity of the mise-en-scene in this film is clear from the opening of the film Lines like “death comes quick around here” help to not only cement the prominence of the theme of death in the lives of the characters but reveal how it is systemically ingrained in the setting of the movie It redefines death as a result of the environment The delivery used for its social messaging is almost too on the nose it has clearly been conveyed that the conditioning of society frames Black men as monsters without giving them their due Society assumes their nature to be monstrous rather than humane While this messaging is beautiful and important to convey narrative tropes of struggle are a bit belabored This film’s relationship with the police as characters is important to note as there are multiple scenes where — were it not for the superhuman abilities of Vicaria’s monster — a moment of police brutality would have occurred although this film heavily critiques the experiences of Black trauma that are ingrained into American systems it does so by presenting additional trauma to audiences In an attempt to prove that it is opposed to the systems that oppress Black Americans it neglects the fact that the thematic messaging of this film already does this perfectly “The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster” takes an important stance on the role that grief can play upon the hearts of those unwilling to accept death because of the unfair circumstances that it almost always occurs in It deals with a theme vital for audiences to walk home with and ponder: sometimes the odds of the world are stacked against you before you even enter the game It validates the powerful feelings and the actions that are taken while experiencing those emotions providing viewers with a beautiful narrative of a family working to find solace and rebirth after a great deal of worldly trauma Patton can be reached at xander.patton@thecrimson.com Want to keep up with breaking news? 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One of life’s greatest wounds is death and the subsequent grief that follows It is the steep price we pay for the honor of communing and sharing our soul with another living being Their absence forces us to accept and acclimate to a new version of normal one with a landmine of triggers that can slice our emotional flesh at any given moment cyclical hells that threaten to completely consume us at any moment like an invasive disease what if death itself were a disease that could be cured Story’s horror drama The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster a oft-bleak meditation on systemic oppression and violence The film borrows general inspiration from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein but shifts its setting to a disenfranchised project housing development At its center is Vicaria (Laya DeLeon Hayes) a gifted Black teenage scholar whose life has been marred by her surroundings After losing her mother years prior and her brother Chris (Edem Atsu-Swanzy) recently to gun violence Vicaria sees death as a disease and is on a mission to cure it her environment provides ample test subjects as she desires to bring her brother back to life Frankenstein’s classic depiction as a wealthy privileged white man who is She’s jokingly called the “mad scientist” and the moniker fits This is especially true when she pulls flesh apart and reassembles it while disturbingly chuckling at her own brilliance this is not about exploitation or satisfying a need to create something world-changing Vicaria wants to bring balance to a community that is constantly in flux and soothe her palpable pain electricity resurrects her brother… but there is a price to pay He seemingly reacts from a place of crushing residual pain from his life that ended far too soon Vicaria’s pain and motivations provide further fuel for his actions DeLeon Hayes delivers a stunning performance as the titular and righteously angry Black girl Her heartbreaking rationale and ever-changing currents of grief will resonate with viewers as she parses through her grief Vicaria fights against the ills of society with the only tools she has: her mind and determination Coleman makes every second of his screen time count as Vicaria’s loving and protective father Donald Denzel Whitaker’s Kango is a solid deuteragonist who is both a part of the problem and the solution Whitaker and DeLeon Hayes go for several verbal sparring rounds with the final one packing a mighty punch. It is perhaps the best scene in the entire film that blurs the lines between hero and supposed villain The film’s version of the Modern Prometheus Much of the resurrected Chris’ time depicts him as a vengeful boogeyman whose actions increasingly affect those who loved him this presents the conundrum about what it means to be alive It surely is more than jolts of electrical energy through our bodies that make our hearts pump and can even say a few words but the essence of him is no longer present There’s no holding back on the brutality he delivers but the gore is realistic vs a more splatter approach to match the film’s overall tone the interactions between Vicaria and her resurrected brother lack the frequency and connection to truly drive home the film’s points about his humanity and motivations The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster painfully sags in the middle The focus wanders too far away from its primary plot losing the steam that it successfully built in its first act things wander back on course for the third act with an intense The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster is an innovative take on a Gothic tale with sharp dialogue and a protagonist who wields a mighty power The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster will hit theaters on June 9. It will hit on Demand and Digital on June 23 before it later finds a home on Shudder and AllBlk. We’re delighted you're perusing our site for all your nerdy news We'd wholeheartedly appreciate you enabling ads to keep this content free Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Home » Movie Review: THE ANGRY BLACK GIRL AND HER MONSTER THE ANGRY BLACK GIRL movie poster | ©2023 RLJE Films There is a lot of mostly good metaphor in THE ANGRY BLACK GIRL AND HER MONSTER It also works as a fairly straight Frankenstein tale The main question here might be with the title Vicaria (Laya DeLeon Hayes) is indeed angry but so is her friend and neighbor Aisha (Reilly Brooke Stith) which one of them is “the” angry black girl The difference between these two young women is that Aisha is pregnant with the baby of Vicaria’s older brother Chris (Edem Atsu-Swanzy) and trying to get her little sister Jada (Amani Summer) to read the writings of Malcolm X as she exasperatedly corrects a teacher) is more interested in the healing potential of science her mother was shot to death while holding her Vicaria’s brother Chris is also gunned down When Jada calls her a “mad scientist,” it’s hard to tell if Vicaria is perturbed because she’s worried that somebody might suspect what she’s doing or if she’s just irked because she doesn’t think there’s anything crazy about it Vicaria is the neighborhood “body snatcher” everyone is afraid of She is capable of putting up a solid argument in defense of her theories but she’d rather be putting them into practice Vicaria is rapturous when dealing with viscera joyous when she can get electricity to move rotting flesh In what seems like a fairly brief amount of screen time she brings brother Chris back from the dead Vicaria isn’t prepared for what she ought to do now that her experiment has succeeded there’s an argument that she ought to be – her notebook is even titled “The Modern Prometheus” by Vicaria F Vicaria is still very young and without anybody to provide counsel She is also focused on her plan to save her and Chris’s hardworking father Donald (Chad L Donald has relapsed into drug addiction after losing his son and Vicaria wants this to stop before she has to resurrect her father Hayes makes Vicaria a magnetic central figure She shows us the intelligence and authority that makes Vicaria someone that people around her turn to when they need her skills and has the emotional depth to make us care about what she’s doing and what happens to her and Denzel Whitaker has the right mixture of bravado and introspection as the local drug boss There are credible analogues for topics ranging from the film’s main fulcrum – how gun violence is creating monsters in the Black community – to smaller ones like the importance of supportive parents and the dangers of putting too much pressure on people who are mentally vulnerable Story also provides us with a sense of the wider community surrounding Vicaria and Chris along with making us just about believe that Vicaria might be able to keep her activities from being noticed for as long as she does Where THE ANGRY BLACK GIRL AND HER MONSTER slows down a bit is As it becomes a more traditional horror movie we get fewer of the elements that have made it unique We also get just a little impatient with Vicaria We like her a great deal and have sympathy for her but when a character starts sliding into predictable tropes there’s plenty in THE ANGRY BLACK GIRL AND HER MOTHER for both fans of Frankenstein’s monster stories and people who enjoy pairing horror conventions with societal observations XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong> View Results María del Rosario García Ribas was elected Vicar General of the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians María del Rosario García Ribas is the Vicar General of the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians The election took place on the morning of 6 October 2021 All the Chapter members and the Sisters of the FMA Generalate Community congratulated her A warm applause greeted the official proclamation María del Rosario García Ribas was born on 22 January  1961 in Seville (Spain) the Salesian School of Mary Help of Christians in the Nervión district of her city participating fully in many pastoral initiatives while following a Degree in History this Salesian atmosphere conquered her and helped her to discover her vocation She made her first profession on 5 August 1986 and since then the Lord has given her the possibility of being a happy FMA among young women and Sisters in the mission that has always been entrusted to her she studied at the Salesian Pontifical University of Rome – UPS and from 1994 to 2000 she was Provincial Coordinator of Youth Ministry in  Mary Help of Christians Province where she was also Provincial from 2003 to 2009 She was Animator of the houses of Jerez – Maria Ausiliatrice and Sevilla – San José (Mary Help of Christians  School) she was part of the community of Marbella (Malaga) where she was a teacher and coordinated the pastoral care of the two Salesian schools in this city She combined this task with her responsibility as Provincial Councilor for Formation She actively participated as a member of the “Europe-Middle East on the way” commission of the FMA Institute with the unification of the four Spanish Provinces she was appointed Provincial of the newly born Province of Mary Help of Christians of Spain a mission which she carried out until her appointment on 6 October 2021 in the XXIV General Chapter as Vicar General She likes the word ‘thank you’ and everything it means Today it is the whole FMA Institute that says THANK YOU for your availability for this new service that the Lord asks of you Querida Sor María del Rosario: reciba nuestra felicitación y alegría por haber aceptado el delicado servicio como Vicaria de nuestro Instituto Ofrecemos nuestra oración fraterna y la encomendamos a la Sta Congratulazioni e auguri di preghiera da tutte le sorelle di INK Bangalore Oggi giorno della memoria della Beata Maria Vergine de rosario con Lei il nostro augurio Nella tua nuova missione nella congregazione Il rosario sara per noi un luogo del incontro con la Vergine Maria alle tue intenzione Siamo felici per la sua nomina come Vicaria generale del nostro Istituto Tutte le sorelle dell’Ispettoria “Madre di Dio” dell’Africa Occidentale si fanno vicine nella preghiera di azione di grazie a Dio Proprio in questo mese del Rosario che ha dato il suo “Si” La ringraziamo 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Laya DeLeon Hayes (The Equalizer) talks to Bleeding Cool about a modern take on Frankenstein in The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster tackling dark material and chemistry on set he has such a passion for it that you would do these gory scenes He would send empowering messages every day after set not as a person but as a talented director and I want to do more movies with him in the future RLJE Films & Shudder's The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster which also stars Reilly Brooke Stith and Keith Holliday the sadness and the anguish of humanity in our time and the sadness and the anguish of the disciples of Christ The Church feels true and intimate solidarity with humankind and all its history the Second Vatican Council introduced Gaudium et spes the new pastoral handbook for the Church in the modern world It was an attempt to recover the original charisma of the gospel message: good news for the poor and comfort for the afflicted and Santiago de Chile was three years into the brutal dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet Pope Paul VI transformed a makeshift commission of local churchmen and their lay supporters into the most trusted and respected organization in the country The flagship cause for the Vicaría was the Families of the Disappeared the Vicaría became a top-notch team of lawyers doctors and social workers in the service of political prisoners It was the only star of hope in a dark sky for the victims of torture persecution and extreme poverty of those difficult years torture and extrajudicial killing of political opponents might seem like the dusty leftovers from the Cold War; collateral damage from far away; statistics in the crowd of nameless thousands whose lives didn’t matter Military dictatorship was an epidemic in Latin America during the 1970s and ’80s supported by the United States in its bid to control communism in the region Foreign soldiers were trained in the brutal techniques of counterinsurgency by their U.S Behind every detainee taken away in the night and never heard from again were families and loved ones Most never got the answers they were looking for and most of the perpetrators were never held accountable One of those left in anguish was Inelia Hermosilla who was taken away by the Chilean secret police when I was in Chile as a lay volunteer with the Holy Cross fathers The church seems to have retired to the sacristy but the mission of the disciples of Christ is far from over Dancing la cueca with an imaginary partner is also a tradition la cueca sola became a dance of painful longing a way to denounce the senseless loss of sons and lovers arrested by secret police in the dark of night I don’t know if he made a clandestine visit to Chile in the years after the coup he saw the Families’ musical group when they toured Europe didn’t sing well enough to be making any world tours Their trips were sponsored by nonprofits and human rights groups Sting got wind of it and wrote a song that became a phenomenon He remembers “this sadness in their eyes.” When Violeta Morales performed la cueca sola There was little room for authentic spontaneity in orthodox Marxism for the explicit purpose of conscientization Violeta was a clandestine operative in the party to which her brother had belonged About 10 leftist parties existed during the Pinochet years all of them banned and operating underground All fighting to overthrow the tyrant and usher in the new dawn of socialist liberty and justice for all Sting came to Chile for a concert at the National Stadium The ladies from la Agrupación were invited to join him on stage She was the one you would pick out of a crowd and Sting’s little waltz with her got an ovation la cueca sola wasn’t meant for a big show at the National Stadium with the smell of mulled wine and fried empanadas hanging in the air She smiled and winked as if her boy were there before her The original cueca sola spoke of hope for a future love the dance spoke of a joy that was no longer there It revealed the emptiness by means of contrary projection It's not as if these women had studied the semiotics of dramatic irony dance was a way to live with what she called “her problem,” the disappearance of her only boy They had their own children to think about Mónica and Rosario did their best to forget the judges and the generals called the mothers crazy old women they would be asked to prove they had even had a son The official take on it seemed to be that there was an epidemic of imaginary sons and daughters among elderly women in Chile The Pinochet regime attributed everything to communist plots Then came the scandal remembered as The 119 Tito had been detained from Inelia’s home in July of 1974 the regime published a list of “extremists” it said had fled the country and died in armed confrontations among rival factions in Brazil and Argentina The headlines read: Exterminated like rats Supporters of the regime wanted to believe it Many thought of General Pinochet as a living saint The persecuted left wrote songs to commemorate their fallen comrades The Chilean Communist Party was Soviet-driven with a history of leadership in the labor movement dating back to the 1920s and ’30s its slogans and pamphlets seemed almost burlesque The Communists had become the Jehovah’s Witnesses of the Chilean left zealous and inspired by the Cuban revolution That was when she decided to take it to the streets wives and sisters of the disappeared tended to be militants themselves This was not the world’s first dictatorship If a political prisoner was held incommunicado for more than a month but they held on to the illusion that they would someday see their sons alive It was harder to imagine your boy tortured in prison for decades than mercifully shot on the day of his arrest When neighbors and relatives encouraged her to give up she was alone in her home on the north side of Santiago Inelia sang contralto and danced la cueca sola Doris died of a pulmonary embolism in 2005 no one knows what happened to Tito or Miguel Angel What you were supposed to understand was that about three hours south of Santiago on the fast train but they all knew how to do things with style and grace not even to go buy the fresh bread for the afternoon tea Chileans stood out on the South American continent because they drank wine like the French and tea like the English Inelia stayed home and cultivated the feminine arts She knew what to do with fine fabric and a sewing machine And that’s how she became Her Majesty’s seamstress Inelia was almost 30 when Héctor Garay came along The happy couple lived in nearby Villa Alegre for a while and then moved to Santiago The owners of the Hotel Crillón were Swiss It was one of the three fancy hotels in downtown Santiago but her employers knew how to use her talents would be making an official state visit to Chile in 1968 She spent two weeks sitting at her sewing machine in the imperial suite The manager provided the finest French cloth singing boleros and baladas from the 1930s and she sang in the romantic style of a bygone era She enjoyed the view of the majestic white mountaintops from her hotel window She was fascinated by the long Pacific coastline that promised a prosperous future to the faraway people known as the English of South America Inelia got to keep the scraps of the fine French fabric I had cushions and curtains that looked like they came from Versailles in my fourth-floor walk-up flat in Santiago and I barely made enough to make ends meet the service personnel at the hotel received a generous tip from the gracious hands of the Queen Inelia used that curtsy when she finished the cueca sola France and England ceased being objects of fascination for Chileans Chilean children began to dream of alien superheroes sworn to truth Inelia was called down to wait on his table but Inelia managed to arrange an appointment with his imperial majesty The presidential palace at La Moneda was still a smoldering ruin Pinochet ruled from the new bunker of steel and glass Perhaps he thought she wanted to get his autograph and thank him for saving her country from young communists with beards and long hair A little favor for a nice lady who seemed like everyone’s mom would be good for his public image The appointment was for the following week sitting on a hard wooden chair in the foyer until 8 that night She spent about half of it in bed with symptoms of imminent miscarriage She managed to hold on to him the whole nine months She used to say that she cared for Tito like a holy relic because she put so much work into having him Inelia had already had what Chilean women discreetly referred to as the surgery The doctor had told her that she shouldn’t be having any more children The smell of food made her sick and she began to throw up She was already pregnant before the surgery They said nothing like that had ever happened before His appearance was as unexpected as his disappearance The judges and the generals would tell the mothers that if they had raised their boys right they would have never gotten mixed up in revolutionary politics A moral imperative to change the things you can in an unjust world George Washington would certainly be remembered as a traitor to the crown The art pieces for this story are known as arpilleras created by Chilean women in response to the oppressive regime of the brutal dictator These pieces belong to the William Benton Museum of Art at the University of Connecticut Tito went to grammar school in the neighborhood He went to public high school at Liceo 7 de Hombres in Plaza Ñuñoa he was a freshman at the Pedagogical Institute of the Universidad de Chile That was on Avenida Grecia at the corner of Macul The Pedagogical Institute was locally known as el Piedragógico There were frequent student demonstrations Tintin was an intrepid teenage reporter with tiny round eyes and balls big enough to get himself mixed up in the most incredible escapades he lived to challenge the adult world using confidence Inelia actually called her son Tintin for a while Most people thought that was just a diminutive for Tito but it had to do with the secret identity of a boy journalist from Belgium The Adventures of Tintin was virulently anti-communist and Tintin went to the Land of the Soviets and found everything terrible He went to the Congo and reported on how Belgian rule there was wonderful He collaborated with the Germans during the occupation He worked for a newspaper that fell under Nazi control between 1940 and ’44 It is perhaps not fair to judge what someone might have had to do but it must be said that Remi’s vision of the world fit well with Hitler’s political Darwinism Remi believed that the empire of superior races was inevitable it was taken as a glorious reminder of evolutionary progress What did Tintin see through those tiny round eyes of his why didn’t he become a militant of the extreme right I guess you don’t have to be a genius to get it Children don’t see the world in ideological concepts What a boy-child would have emulated in his hero was the intrepid spirit of adventure and courage When he decided his life would make a difference He applied the surreal omnipotence of the fictitious adolescent reporter from Belgium to the Latin American class struggle the dream of a new Chile where every child had enough to eat But Remi’s Tintin was from a fantasy universe where incredible things always worked out on the last page but the apple never falls far from the tree Tito’s father was a soft-spoken man with impeccable manners giving haircuts to the young inmates and letting them know there was always hope Figure in the hope of the Popular Unity years and the violence of the military coup There is a classic drawing of Tintin with his dog Milou There was a song about a revolutionary fugitive Imagine what it would do to your prestige in high school if everyone knew you were a bona fide member of the most committed revolutionary group in the country If you had a can of spray paint in your backpack Those who know what really happened to him have never had the courage to speak up Mónica and Rosario imagine their brother must be in heaven But Uncle Karl says there is no mansion in the sky But the opposite seems also to be true: The people That’s what 17 years of dictatorship have left us The people traded the lives of the disappeared for the illusion of someday winning the lottery and becoming billionaires The memory of what really happened long ago gets fuzzier with every passing day like an old photograph worn by dampness and time Facts can be changed to accommodate ideological shifts I don’t know if it was for the historical record or if it was part of the collective therapy He would come home from school and all the pages of his notebooks would be wadded up like a cabbage All 15-year-old boys seem rowdy to their moms His classmates were the ones who wadded up the pages of his notebooks He would sketch a world where everything worked out where Tintin and his dog could solve any problem with ingenuity and good luck He took responsibility for the days to come a world where there was enough to eat for everyone Where there were schools and jobs and health care for all Inelia used Tito’s drawings for inspiration when she started doing arpilleras pictures stitched into burlap with yarn and old rags Renowned Chilean folksinger Violeta Parra made arpilleras She was invited to show them at the Louvre in 1964 The rustic simplicity of faraway places fascinates refined citizens of cultured intellectual worlds They imagine they can magically connect with some exotic universe that Paris and New York have never known Arpilleras from Chile and wooden masks from Africa La Agrupación had the idea of representing the disappearances in arpillera the political prisoners and the families of exiles all got a piece of the action The plan was to export them to raise money to support the soup kitchens There was even a stage play about the arpilleristas Poor women always had names like María and Rosa As if it obeyed the zeitgeist and not the author It was a big deal because the regime tried to censor it couldn’t find anything subversive about it The Ministry of Defense in charge of theater The threat of censorship turned out to be a huge windfall for Tres Marías y una Rosa It leapt to international fame and everyone went to see it But it went on tour to Europe and the U.S. All social thinkers of any status in the First World had to have one Then she stitched the story of his arrest a dozen times impregnating the burlap fibers forever with her tears Her arpilleras were among the most sought after not only for the quality of her artistry but also because she had been an eyewitness but it had a depth of truth you will find nowhere else but the cardinal’s lawyers and social workers at the Vicaría did their best with the facts they had when the cardinal was about to give communion to Pinochet It is true that Inelia hid out in the Vicaría after that There was a lateral door on the south side of the Cathedral The old wooden stairs just outside that door led up to the offices of the Vicaría slipped through the door and pressed it shut It couldn’t be opened from the Cathedral side without a key Inelia slipped out of the Vicaría by way of the Teatinos Street exit I don’t know if the DINA was unaware of the existence of that exit or if they just decided not to arrest another old lady when Inelia stood up on a bench in Paseo Ahumada to ask Pinochet for a Christmas present the general still dared to walk in a crowd among the privileged few who had any money for shopping She was quickly cuffed and loaded onto a police van she had been taught to call out her name and contact information Some bystanders walked to the Hotel Crillón and told Inelia’s boss she had been taken It’s shocking to see a little old lady in handcuffs They held her in the old Teatro San Martín so in case he was being held there he would hear her and know she hadn’t given up on him her boss from the Hotel Crillón had paid her bail and she was set free her daughters considered taking her to the psychiatric hospital They wanted to cart me off to the looney bin convinced Inelia it was a bad time to go mad She had to look for her son with everything she had She understood the problem and convinced Inelia that this was a mission Inelia Hermosilla became the prototype for the warrior mothers of the Agrupación She was the pattern that gave shape to what the mother of a disappeared boy should be Decisive but sweet; authentic but joyful; a fighter but not bitter; committed but not ideological Madre de detenido-desaparecido had to be a woman with nothing to fear because she had nothing to lose Inelia’s madness never went away completely Norma helped her to channel it for the long haul The price she paid was having to accept that she would probably never see her boy again It meant accepting her new identity as a definitive one the one he always used when he had gym class at school She had it with her that night outside Londres 38 She made friends with the ladies of the night who worked that block they got his description and they promised to try to extract some information from their clients Inelia thought she saw Tito’s eyes in the back of a truck as it pulled out of the gate She jumped into a taxi to follow the truck There is no way of knowing if they stopped the taxi because Tito was in the truck or if they stopped the taxi because he wasn’t in the truck The whole thing might have been a mother’s wishful thinking But it might have been a mother’s intuition It is possible that was the last time she saw him For the first few months after Tito’s arrest She would stand under a street light so that caught up in a struggle that was not their own They would take her by the arm and walk her home They let go of a couple hundred political prisoners who were not real militants They didn’t know what else to do with them A condition for the DINA letting go of anyone was that they had never seen anyone or been anywhere they would later be able to identify That meant that no one who had ever been tortured would ever be set free The amnesty of those few signaled the definitive disappearance of all the rest at the intersection of Departamental and Vicuña Mackenna An official had told Inelia she might find her son there that day Maybe the official looked on the wrong list and it was proof that Tito had been there at some point It was the last time she went out with Tito’s gym bag The prisoners were released into an interior courtyard of the prison The guards carried her to the prison infirmary She had lost her last hope of ever finding her son alive Inelia went to all the meetings at the Vicaría She carried her picture of Tito inscribed with the slogan: Where are they She participated in all the marches and hunger strikes the maternal illusion that today could be the day Inelia no longer waited under the street light at midnight on Avenida Grecia She cleaned out Tito’s room and gave his winter coat away to another boy who was cold She made arpilleras and she danced the cueca sola like no one else Nathan Stone spent the last 35 years in Latin America he is doing doctoral studies in history at the University of Texas while caring for his aging mother Your Ads Privacy ChoicesIMDb Tel. +34 963 82 97 00 | archivalencia@archivalencia.org | FAQS Los inicios de las comunidades cristianas en Valencia se sitúan cuando es martirizado en Valencia San Vicente Mártir el 22 de enero del año 304 La jerarquía eclesiástica durante la época mozárabe subsistió en Valencia hasta mediados del siglo XII por lo menos si bien en el siglo XIII se daba por extinguida aunque permanecieron varios núcleos cristianos en la ciudad y en algunas poblaciones La diócesis tuvo un momento de esplendor a mediados del siglo XVI Fue en el siglo XIX y el primer tercio del XX cuando la comunidad 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comprender qué secciones de la web encuentras más interesantes y útiles Las cookies estrictamente necesarias tiene que activarse siempre para que podamos guardar tus preferencias de ajustes de cookies Si desactivas esta cookie no podremos guardar tus preferencias Esto significa que cada vez que visites esta web tendrás que activar o desactivar las cookies de nuevo Esta web utiliza Google Analytics para recopilar información anónima tal como el número de visitantes del sitio Dejar esta cookie activa nos permite mejorar nuestra web activa primero las cookies estrictamente necesarias para que podamos guardar tus preferencias Más información sobre nuestra política de cookies When I first heard there was a movie called The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster so I didn’t think the film would be any good This movie works on pretty much every level it ended up being one of my favorite cinematic experiences of 2023 what struck me the most was the humanity behind all the monster mayhem Despite what the title might seem to imply The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster is way more than just a thrill-a-minute scarefest let’s take a minute to go over the basic plot of the movie The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster centers around a brilliant high schooler named Vicaria (Laya DeLeon Hayes) and it starts with a brief prelude explaining the girl’s history with death Her mother died unexpectedly when she was only eight Those two tragic losses have led her to believe that death is a disease that spreads like an infection Through her Frankenstein-esque experiments she discovers a way to bring her brother back from the grave Chris turns into a monster and goes on a deadly rampage The only one who can stop him is the teen scientist who gave him life it might not seem like The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster is anything more than a stereotypical cautionary tale against playing God there’s a lot more to this film than meets the eye To begin it’s important to look at Chris’s arc and we can take our cue from the touching words his sister speaks to him right before his second death My name is Monster,” but Vicaria will have none of it when her friend Jada (Amani Summer) asks why he hurt so many people He’s still a human being who deserves to be loved and his monstrous killing spree doesn’t change that we can’t lay the blame entirely at Chris’s feet He was pushed into becoming a killer by people and circumstances outside his control and to see how we have to rewind the movie and examine his victims one by one He and his sister are held up at gunpoint by a local gangbanger named Curt (Jeremy DeCarlos) and he only becomes violent when the guy pulls the trigger and shoots him Vicaria comes across a dead police officer who she assumes was Chris’s second victim we hear a gangbanger named Jamaal (Keith Holliday) brag about killing a cop so the corpse Vicaria saw is most likely Jamaal’s handiwork a police officer who calls him a monster and tries to arrest him and some friends and family members who attack him because they don’t believe it’s him he only becomes violent when he’s provoked he turns into a monster because people call him one if we pay close attention to the final confrontation between Chris and Vicaria it’s not even clear that he’s trying to harm his sister he pops up right as Jamaal is attacking her he could very well be defending his sister She doesn’t even consider the possibility that he might be trying to help her so who knows how things would’ve played out if she had tried talking to him Maybe he would’ve calmed down and shown himself to be the loving brother she always knew or maybe she was right and he would’ve just killed her but the point is that she’s no different from the other characters in The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster The only person who treats Chris like a human being is Vicaria’s friend Jada He’s gentle with her because she’s kind to him but he acts like a monster to everyone else because they all treat him like one first you probably know that good horror movies often use their monster mayhem to mirror the human stories they tell The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster is no different it’s about a monster who’s pushed into violence by forces outside his control and if we examine the human drama in the film Let’s start with Chris (before he died and came back to life) The movie’s introduction tells us that he got involved in a local gang at some point it’s not hard to figure that out for ourselves He was just a kid when he and Vicaria lost their mother He was a mechanic by day and a security guard by night so he probably didn’t have much time to spend with his children Chris had to face the one-two punch of intense grief and an absent father (even if understandably so) He was probably desperate for the loving attention he could no longer get from his parents so he was left very vulnerable to the kind of seductive brainwashing gangs often employ to attract new members Vicaria’s father was in so much pain he turned to drugs to help him cope and at one point in The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster Vicaria herself is forcibly recruited by her brother’s former gang to help cut their drugs but when one of the gangbangers puts a machete to her neck we have to talk about a man named Kango ( Denzel Whitaker) He’s the leader of the local gang that controls Vicaria’s neighborhood He shows absolutely no remorse for sending Chris on the mission that led to his death or for getting Vicaria’s father addicted to drugs so you can’t help but hate this guy with a burning passion as The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster goes on there’s a scene where he gives his sick grandmother a glass of water and he lovingly kneels next to her while he does it but it adds a surprising touch of humanity to this otherwise monstrous gang leader and it gives us a glimpse into why he probably entered gang life in the first place His grandmother almost certainly has expensive medical bills so he most likely joined the gang to get her the money she needs to pay those bills Kango also plays an important role in the third act of this movie He helps Vicaria end her brother’s reign of terror and he shows that he really cares about her and wants her to make it out alive this surprising twist humanizes the character quite a bit so you realize that he’s more than just a gang leader He’s also a human being capable of showing genuine love and concern for others Now that we’ve gone over the various ways The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster hammers home its main theme we’re finally ready to take a step back and look at the bigger picture and what important lessons can this film teach us about the human condition I want to be clear about what the movie isn’t trying to say It’s not telling us that we should just let all criminals off the hook People like Kango should definitely be taken off the streets and punished and nothing in The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster implies anything to the contrary they can never lose their basic humanity or the dignity that comes with it so while people sometimes need to be punished for their actions just like Vicaria still loved her brother even after he went on a murderous rampage the characters in The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster aren’t anomalies People are often pushed into bad choices by factors outside their control in real life too they can be literally forced at gunpoint (or at machete’s edge) like Vicaria; they can be overwhelmed by grief and loneliness like Chris and his father; or they may have to choose between hurting people and letting someone they love die the fact is that people who victimize others are also often victims themselves so if we want to make the world a better place we can’t just focus on punishing criminals We also have to combat the conditions that push people to commit crimes we’ll just allow these cycles of violence and misery to continue and few horror movies illustrate that important truth as well as The Angry Black Girl and 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We publish new content daily that can easily be found by following us on Twitter, Instagram, by joining our Facebook Page, or becoming an email subscriber here on the site Thank you as always for your support of 25YL You can find him on Twitter @jpnunezhorror Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" The Angry Black Girl And Her Monster Sign up for highlights and exclusive content Here you'll find all collections you've created before “The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster,” Bomani Story’s most recent movie all of which are woven together in a unique way The movie could have been endlessly fascinating but as the second part of the movie kicks in It gives hints of a very interesting denouement from the beginning Now let’s talk in detail about what happens in the movie The film starts with Vicaria grabbing her brother Chris’s dead body and bringing it into a place that she calls her laboratory She is a promising young scientist who thinks death is a disease that can be cured with prominent scientific methods The reason behind such thinking is that Vicaria has known death since childhood She has had enough and wants to cure death with her mad approach toward science Vicaria collects the dead body from the neighborhood and cuts off the skin and flesh to make Chris as fresh as possible Vicaria collects numerous bodies to make Chris’s body as fresh as possible She makes the heart run by putting electricity into it Her obsession with death attracts attention in the school Chris was killed because he was working for a local gang and was sent to kill some members of a rival gang The man who sent him to do the job is Kango Soon another boy named Jerome joins the Kango gang Vicaria knows that Jerome is just a boy and he should be going to school rather than involving such criminal-minded people and he breathes his last in front of her eyes The doctors try to bring him back to life with CPR This somehow intrigues Vicaria to think about how Chris can be brought back to life She understands while watching the doctors give CPR to Jerome that the amount of electricity she is putting into Chris’s body is not enough She needs more current directly aimed toward Chris’s body so that all the muscles are fueled with electricity she needs two separate tools: one that will steal the electricity and the other that will make it go through Chris’s dead body She accumulates a huge amount of electricity in one place and then points it in the direction of Chris’s body and Vicaria is finally able to create a Frankenstein of her own—only this time But things started to go beyond her control He starts attacking because he is confused about his existence A petrified Vicaria locks her lab from the outside and runs away Before locking up Chris inside the lab, Vicaria tells him that she will take him to the one who is responsible for his death. She brings him to one of the cars that Kango uses to hide his drugs and steals it Curtis comes to the scene and sees Vicaria stealing drugs which results in a very severe injury to Curtis He threatens her to return the drugs she stole last night as she soon finds out that Chris has broken the lab’s lock and is missing and Vicaria is scared to death thinking of facing him Chris starts killing whoever comes his way but his face is completely burned by the experiment that went wrong Vicaria will soon find out that Chris is trying to talk to Jada She goes to Chris’s house after Jada tells her where he lives Chris is looking for his family and ends up at Vicaria’s house and Chris’s father come to the house Donald figures out that this isn’t Chris and tells him to leave Chris kills Donald without even knowing it because he feels threatened by him Chris kills everyone in the family except Jada and Vicaria Chris tries to make them think he’s back but his burned face and scary clothes make everyone try to get rid of him Vicaria figures out that if she can make the same amount of electricity that brings Chris back But she can’t make power without the two tools Kango helps her get the instrument from her room to the living room and he dies after giving the instrument to Vicaria Vicaria goes to her lab and sets up all of the tools The monster is finally killed as the electricity runs through Chris’s body who made a big deal about Chris coming back Vicaria learns quickly that there is no way to stop death But she remembers the mistake she made when she was trying to bring Chris back She used the skin and organs of numerous people His own memories are perhaps blurred under all the memories of those people which is why Chris didn’t recognize anyone close to him But Vicaria’s other family members were killed recently she uses the same method on her pregnant sister Aisha both Aisha and her baby son come back to life Vicaria thinks at first that this won’t work but Aisha recognizes herself and everyone around her Vicaria finally figures out how to stop dying She will bring everyone to life one by one so it’s time to stop thinking about him and instead remember the good times he had with his family Vicaria now thinks that she will use her science questions in a more useful manner Shovan Roy is an avid filmmaker enthusiast dedicated to unraveling the magic of the cinematic world Passionate about understanding the art and craft of filmmaking he immerses himself in the captivating realm of storytelling With each passing day Shovan is learning more and more from his fellow teammates who motivate him to write the best content Shovan's journey in the realm of cinema is an ever-evolving adventure fueled by his unwavering commitment to the power of visual storytelling Designed by Two Words If painful obscurity and conspicuous ambiguity are modern art-house horror’s dooming curses I’m happy to report that Bomani Story’s directorial debut couldn’t be more bereft of these follies Subtlety of themes and their crucial accord with the events gladly take a backseat as The Angry Black Girl And Her Monster floods the screen with terror that inarguably will hit too close to home It wages a humbling war on behalf of all those people from the Black community who’ve had their names intentionally mispronounced and their very existence villainized just for the abominable hell of it Handing the hangman’s rope to the formidable heroine and placing her in a loving yet unimaginably tumultuous terrarium of sorts the film doesn’t just point you to the wrongs of the wrongdoers but looks them straight in the eyes as it does so The closely knit community of Black people as overabundant with love as it is overcome with systemic failures The secret is safely kept between young Vicaria and the corpse invoking “The Modern Prometheus” by Mary Shelley Happily displeasing and vexing her “white folks” school’s sickeningly racist teacher Vicaria is an astonishing inventor through and through But the fire that keeps her penchant for science alive is rather ominous Death has been an unwanted guest in her life ever since a random bullet made her mother take her last breath and gang violence took her brother Chris from her Vicaria has long been the helpless spectator of some intentionally inflicted and some successive destruction of the people that make up her community and the culture they’ve treasured for ages there are her things devotedly keeping her from perishing The sense of love and acceptance she is showered with by Aisha vastly overshadows the conflicts between their personal politics Even though the loss of his son has submerged him in an ocean of pain and the lingering feeling of incompetence and he’s been seeking comfort in the nonjudgmental embrace of narcotics Donald is a superhero when it comes to protecting his daughter Being hailed “The Body Snatcher” and “The Mad Scientist” is inevitable for Vicaria Upholding the honor her community has been stripped of there’s but one way she can fight back—finding a cure for death Story’s debut sensibly juxtaposes Vicaria’s justified angst and her rage against institutional abuse with Aisha’s politics Aisha’s fervid politics passionately scrubs off any stain of racial ignorance around her—and that includes making impressionable kids aware of Christopher Columbus’ outrageous truth The Angry Black Girl And Her Monster is disquietingly felicitous in the way it peppers the conflicts that even though seen through a surreal lens more often than not The numbing identity and social crisis that befall a community when they’re systematically given far less than the bare minimum is daunting in Kango’s drug dynasty When you’ve been made to feel unwelcome and downright kicked out of the ports that claim to prop up civilized privileges and the chants of your supposed evil have become an earworm you’ve hardly any choice but to accept that you’re not worthy The drugs and the stray bullets are just the symptoms of a bigger more fatal disease: being forced to embrace your primal So when the jolts of the defibrillator fail and the light goes out of a little kid’s eyes Vicaria knows what to do to bring her brother back to life drawing the energy of the entire neighborhood metaphor for the sacrifices an abused community makes in the hopes of supporting one another the Frankensteinian man’s discongruity with the identity that’s long been buried and rejected lands Vicaria in a world of crushed skulls and throats Daringly straightforward socioeconomic symbols and humbling racial discourses grow like wildflowers in the bloodied landscape of Bomani Story’s brave surrealistic horror no amount of mushed-up brains and clots of blood and tissue reddening the floors is as terrifying as the hell Vicaria and her people are made to live in The shockingly nuanced portrayal of the same is hosted by Kango the ruthless drug dealer who doesn’t mind killing and abusing as long as he gets to put food on the table He’s been battered and broken by the world long enough to be unbothered by the pain that he endures and also that which he causes He’s so estranged from the privileges of knowing right from wrong that he sees nothing wrong with making a minor deal for him with the looming threat of Jamaal’s machete slicing her head off her shoulders the deep-rooted misogyny and the easily bruised masculine ego in Vicaria’s community are recurrently addressed in the film From Aisha teaching the little boy a lesson for hurling an inherently sexist slur at a little girl to Jamaal’s concern for the bashed-up Curtis being overtaken by the feeling that his manhood has been put to shame by Vicaria’s “monster,” the subtle conversations surrounding internalized patriarchy are hard to miss the antagonist in The Angry Black Girl And Her Monster is so far from the traditional expectations of someone like him that your heart aches for someone as vicious as Kango It takes an innate and appreciable amount of self and social awareness for Kango to know that he isn’t just selling narcotics He’s selling a volatile embrace of comfort for the community for which seeking help from a mental health professional is a pipe dream—and that includes Vicaria’s father it doesn’t take Vicaria too long to realize why her resurrected brother is leaving a trail of bodies behind Even without knowing practically anything about how Chris was when he was alive the impression that’s made by Vicaria’s love for her brother and Aisha’s devotion to her boyfriend neither of whom would ever accept being treated with unkindness It would be rather indolent to chalk the current Chris’ violent impulses up to morbid resurrection and a subsequent lack of sentience The Angry Black Girl And Her Monster isn’t a film to shy away from calling out the systemic prejudice that atrociously demonizes an innocent man for the color of his skin long enough to make him say “to hell with it” and accept the imposed identity What was born in Vicaria’s gloomy basement was a child in a body consisting of the flesh hoping the world outside would be kind enough to lead him back home overwhelmed mind was then subjected to was instinctive fear and police brutality that had him flat on the ground before he could utter a word not that that would’ve stopped the degenerates from trying to crush his bones If all you’ve ever heard is that you’re a monster there comes a point when you wear the skin of one Chris’ subversion from what he was meant to be made him wreak unimaginable havoc killing Jada’s entire family and his own brother and there’s only disappointment to be found in the ones who were supposed to protect you your community is all you’re left with coming together and putting an end to Chris’ bloodbath was of far greater importance than any conflict that made them each other’s nemesis What The Angry Black Girl And Her Monster ends with is a flicker of hope in a black hole of pain and chaos And the little bud of joy and hope that grows within Aisha is all that Vicaria wishes to save as she strives to focus even with a cracked pair of glasses—a fitting metaphor for how violence and prejudices against people attempt to blur the road ahead in hopes that they’ll never find the way to excel As long as the Vicarias of the world don’t stop dreaming Story weaves a spellbinding tale of resilience and defiance exploring the power of familial bonds in the face of oppressive societal pressures amidst the backdrop of systemic injustices and societal constraints explores Vicaria’s resilience and her family’s support As they navigate the darkest depths of grief they also find their own resilience is reborn and transformed This is Bomani J. Story’s first film and stars Laya DeLeon as Vicaria. Lovers of The Equalizer can easily recognize the BAFTA-winning actress “Injecting a classic story with fresh innovation and social relevance The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster is a thrillingly assured feature debut for writer-director Bomani J  If you were unable to catch the movie in a theatre, fret not. RLJE Films has already released the movie on Video on Demand Deepshikha Deb is the publisher of High on Films She quit her job to watch movies with her husband and occasionally write about them She is also a social media and momo-tasting expert who loves Masala Dosa and Tilda Swinton