{"id":160835,"date":"2022-03-21T14:27:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T18:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/?p=160835"},"modified":"2022-03-21T14:27:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T18:27:48","slug":"mariama-diallos-master-film-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/mariama-diallos-master-film-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariama Diallo\u2019s \u2018Master\u2019 Film Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>\u201cMaster,\u201d<\/strong> the first feature film from writer-director <strong>Mariama Diallo<\/strong>, brings to cinematic life an unsettling yet honest account of Diallo\u2019s internal experiences. Told through a horror lens, \u201cMaster\u201d follows three Black women striving to find their place in a prestigious New England college built on the site of Salem-era Gallows Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gail Bishop (<strong>Regina Hall<\/strong>), just instated as \u201cMaster,\u201d a dean of students, discovers what lies behind the school\u2019s immaculate facade; first-year student Jasmine Moore (<strong>Zoe Renee<\/strong>) confronts a new home that is cold and unwelcoming; and literature professor Liv Beckman (<strong>Amber Gray<\/strong>) collides with colleagues who question her right to belong. Navigating politics and privilege, they encounter increasingly terrifying manifestations of the school\u2019s haunted past\u2026 and present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mariama Diallo modeled the fictitious Ancaster college on the school she attended. A school that once used the term \u201cMaster,\u201d which is associated with slavery and oppression, to address the head of a college. In a Sundance Q&amp;A with Diallo, she stated: <em>\u201cpart of the process of writing and making this film was asking some tough questions of myself; of how I was able to sustain four years of my life where I accepted this person into my life \u2014 at the very least with that title. What did it mean and why did it happen? Why didn\u2019t I wake up?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Woven into the film\u2019s various narratives are themes of invisibility, alienation and loneliness felt by three very different yet connected characters trying to figure it out. Diallo\u2019s skillful blend of tone, mood and Kafkaesque imagery conjure visceral, emotional and psychological responses. Painful as it is to watch (insert trigger warning here), one can\u2019t help but wonder how painful it might\u2019ve been for Regina Hall, Zoe Renee and Amber Gray to place themselves into the roles of Gail, Jasmine and Liv. All three actors deliver captivating and palpable performances leaving it up to viewers to decide what the women are actually experiencing and what is antagonizing them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diallo\u2019s storytelling deliberately focuses on the lived experience of microaggressions and inequality using history and social reality to reiterate how racism exists and operates at the core of its institutions. <em>\u201cIt\u2019s not ghosts, it\u2019s not supernatural, it\u2019s America. And it\u2019s everywhere.\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cinematic suspense is orchestrated skillfully through sound, close ups, objects, shadows and lighting, which all provide the right amount of tension and a well-timed relief in the third act. What may come across as an inconclusive story, due to some unresolved plot lines and unexplained mysteries, actually allows the viewer to choose what to think and believe. 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Told through a horror lens, \u201cMaster\u201d follows three Black women striving to find their place in a prestigious New England college built on the site of Salem-era Gallows Hill. 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