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Mar 18, 2022 · In one afternoon, Alice becomes radicalized and, after freaking out over the telephone’s busy signal, becomes an expert at dialing every name in the phone book that sounds like her oppressors. Thankfully, racists who are hiding Black people and using them as slaves have listed numbers.
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It is 1973, and Paul Bennet (Jonny Lee Miller) has kept a number of enslaved people at his house. One day, lovers Alice (Keke Palmer) and Joseph (Gaius Charles), both enslaved domestics, decide to flee. But unfortunately, Joseph is shot and is apparently dead, whereas Alice’s outburst and attack make Paul tie her to a stake on the ground outside th...
Mr. Paul plays an important role in establishing not just Alice’s character but the presence of slavery and the unjust treatment that the black people of America received during the second half of the 20th century. Paul knows that Joseph and Alice love each other. This is something he clearly doesn’t like, and he does what’s in his power to keep th...
She isn’t free when Frank takes her to the hospital. She isn’t free when Frank brings her to his grandma’s place. Alice is free when she finds out what it means to be enslaved. All this time, she had no idea that she was enslaved or that she could be free. She didn’t even know what “slave” meant. She has been merely a domestic all her life. When sh...
The lighter that Joseph discovered in the grave is the same lighter that Alice uses to burn down the jungle. This lighter, in all probability, symbolizes freedom. The man Joseph’s grandfather came across, who gifted him the lighter, was apparently killed by Paul and buried nearby. This symbolizes how Joseph’s grandfather was kept from the “fire” of...
We know that Alice, along with her family, lover, and others, was tortured by Paul and his family. He also kept them all in the dark about the fact that they were legally free, and nobody had the right to keep them as “domestics.” Thus, when she escapes and finds out about slavery and its abolishment, she decides to take revenge on Paul and free he...
Alice (Keke Palmer) yearns for freedom as an enslaved person on a rural Georgia plantation under its brutal and disturbed owner Paul (Jonny Lee Miller).
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Mar 17, 2022 · Keke Palmer stars in "Alice," a revenge drama about a young Black woman being kept as a slave on a plantation in 1970s Georgia.
Jan 24, 2022 · ‘Alice’ Review: A Plantation Slave Escapes Into 1970s America in a Rousing, Empowering Fable. Keke Palmer is phenomenal as an escaped plantation slave who discovers it's 1973 in this...
Jan 24, 2022 · Keke Palmer stars in Roadside Attraction's latest thriller, Alice, which sees her escaping a plantation and discovering that she's in 1973.
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Even with her stellar performance by Keke Palmer leading the way, Alice is a mixed bag that tries and fails to marry two disparate elements of the African-American experience in a satisfyingly ...
