Mike (co-director and co-writer Acoryé White) and Ava (Augie Duke) have plenty of new things happening. To them, like a new home and potentially a new child on the way. However, a neighbor (Sandra Ellis Lafferty) offers Ava a necklace that unleashes an evil born from racism and pain.
Co-directed by White and Patrycja Kepa, who both wrote the script with Felipe Cisneros, Trinket Box reminds me that if you are in a relationship and trying to have a baby, you should never accept tannis root, artwork or jewelry from mysterious old people, especially if said old people also wondering who the black boy who has been coming around is and do you need help and you reply, "Well, that's my husband," and they totally change the subject. This movie would have ended a lot sooner of the white girl just said, "I don't appreciate you and your racist ways that belong, well, never in any time in any society" and slammed the door in her face. However, she was running late for a meeting and just took the evil necklace -- which we helpfully learn was part of a black guy in the past falling for a white girl and her fat dad having a heart attack over it -- instead of, again, slamming the door in the lady's face.
It's rude, but it gets the job done. Let's normalize slamming the door in the face of racist old people. You can also totally do it to young people, too.
My favorite moment was when the husband called all of his friends and told them he was having a baby. If I excitedly called any of my male friends and bragged that I was having a baby, I'd have to slam the door on them with all of the abusive epithets and jokes that would come my way. No man does this. Yes, I get it, gender roles should change, but this was what moved this movie from horror to science fiction.
I kid.
Also this movie falls victim to being so dark at times that I had no idea what I was looking at. I know this happens quite a lot in modern streaming shows and movies, but I feel like I need to keep bringing it up until it stops. We want to see your movie. Bring in a light or two.
Also also: This played theaters, which blows my mind.
Co-directed by White and Patrycja Kepa, who both wrote the script with Felipe Cisneros, Trinket Box reminds me that if you are in a relationship and trying to have a baby, you should never accept tannis root, artwork or jewelry from mysterious old people, especially if said old people also wondering who the black boy who has been coming around is and do you need help and you reply, "Well, that's my husband," and they totally change the subject. This movie would have ended a lot sooner of the white girl just said, "I don't appreciate you and your racist ways that belong, well, never in any time in any society" and slammed the door in her face. However, she was running late for a meeting and just took the evil necklace -- which we helpfully learn was part of a black guy in the past falling for a white girl and her fat dad having a heart attack over it -- instead of, again, slamming the door in the lady's face.
It's rude, but it gets the job done. Let's normalize slamming the door in the face of racist old people. You can also totally do it to young people, too.
My favorite moment was when the husband called all of his friends and told them he was having a baby. If I excitedly called any of my male friends and bragged that I was having a baby, I'd have to slam the door on them with all of the abusive epithets and jokes that would come my way. No man does this. Yes, I get it, gender roles should change, but this was what moved this movie from horror to science fiction.
I kid.
Also this movie falls victim to being so dark at times that I had no idea what I was looking at. I know this happens quite a lot in modern streaming shows and movies, but I feel like I need to keep bringing it up until it stops. We want to see your movie. Bring in a light or two.
Also also: This played theaters, which blows my mind.