{"id":70691,"date":"2020-09-19T04:16:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T01:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/antebellum-ending-explained-what-is-the-big-twist\/"},"modified":"2020-09-19T04:16:43","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T01:16:43","slug":"antebellum-ending-explained-what-is-the-big-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/antebellum-ending-explained-what-is-the-big-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"#&#8217;Antebellum&#8217; Ending Explained &#8211; What is the Big Twist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#&#8217;Antebellum&#8217; Ending Explained &#8211; What is the Big Twist?<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch Movies<\/a> or TV series visit the <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.7--><em><strong>Ending Explained<\/strong><\/em><i> is a recurring series in which we explore the finales, secrets, and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theme<\/a>s of interesting movies and shows, both new and old. This time, we look at the ending of Antebellum.<\/i><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>You have clicked on this article because you have either watched\u00a0<em><strong>Antebellum<\/strong><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>already (my sympathies) or because you have not but you want to hear all about its much-hyped twist. Normally, this is the point where I would tell those who haven\u2019t watched the movie to go and do so, and then come back. Not this time. This time, I give you my full blessing: spoil yourselves without suffering the pain of watching what might be the most woefully misguided film of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The first\u00a0act of\u00a0<em>Antebellum\u00a0<\/em>introduces Eden (<strong>Janelle Mon\u00e1e<\/strong>), an enslaved woman working on a cotton plantation. The second act opens with Veronica, also played by Mon\u00e1e, a hugely successful sociologist living in the present day. You think maybe there are some time-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> shenanigans going on, \u00e0 la Octavia E. Butler\u2019s <em>Kindred<\/em>, or that this is a tale following the rich tradition of Black intergenerational trauma narratives like Alex Haley\u2019s <em>Roots\u00a0<\/em>and Yaa Gyasi\u2019s <em>Homegoing.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But then the big reveal comes, and it\u2019s neither. It\u2019s something infinitely stupider: Veronica <em>is\u00a0<\/em>Eden. She gets into what she thinks is her Lyft and only realizes too late that she has instead hopped into the car of Elizabeth (<strong>Jena Malone<\/strong>), the batshit crazy ringleader of a group of next-level Confederacy-loving Civil War reenactors who kidnap and enslave Black people in order to gain a fully authentic Confederate experience. The United Daughters of the Confederacy ain\u2019t got nothing on Lizzie here.<\/p>\n<p>So we come full-circle to the enslaved Veronica-Eden and her fellow captives desperately plotting to escape to freedom, which does not, in this instance, require making it to the Mason-Dixon line, just off their captor\u2019s compound \u2014 or, you know, to a phone with a working signal.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a dumb, genuinely awful twist that only gets worse the more you think about it. It\u2019s like <em>Antebellum<\/em> is trying to counter the bogus argument that racism was a problem solved in the 1960s by making the exact opposite but equally ridiculous argument\u2014that the difference between the Black experience of the antebellum South and the present is mostly WiFi and airplanes.\u00a0<em>Antebellum <\/em>is also, ironically, the feature debut of the writer-director duo Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz, who claim that they think it\u2019s \u201creally important that any of the art we put out into the world advances the urgent conversations that need to be had around a whole host of issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What urgent conversation is this one supposed to be advancing, lads? Always check the license plate? Because otherwise, all this dumpster fire has to offer is exploitative violence against Black bodies stripped of actual historical commentary by the fantastical nature of its premise. Steve McQueen\u2019s <em>12 Years a Slave\u00a0<\/em>this is not. You don\u2019t get some sort of karmic gold star just for having a historically inspired whipping scene. Adding one more derivative, thematically bankrupt slave story to the pile does not satisfy any real moral imperative. More is not inherently better on this front.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, back to the ending of <em>Antebellum<\/em>: Veronica makes her escape. She kills Elizabeth! And her rapist, who we only know as \u201cHim\u201d! And other Confederates! She rides away to freedom on a horse! And it\u2019s clearly supposed to be a Powerful! Moment! Even though, you know, the idea that she is triumphantly free callously ignores all the emotional and physical scars Veronica\u2019s gained through this ordeal (she\u2019s been literally branded). Not to mention the crazy amounts of therapy that she\u2019s going to need to help her move past the trauma and survivors guilt (basically all her enslaved friends die gruesomely, usually in front of her) caused by this ordeal.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s not forget, if we\u2019re actually being realistic here, Veronica is also probably going to be stuck with a murder trial, because that\u2019s due process, even if those assholes deserved it. And of course, there\u2019s no way the whole story doesn\u2019t become a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> sensation, so now instead of being known for her best-selling book and successful career, she\u2019s going to be known first and foremost as the woman who survived the crazy slave-branding cult that wasn\u2019t Nxivm.<\/p>\n<p>So there\u2019s your explanation for why <em>Antebellum\u00a0<\/em>ends with the specific moment of the bloodied, battered Veronica escaping on a horse, as opposed to actually reuniting with her family or anything like that \u2014 because, sadly, her ordeal isn\u2019t over. 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