'Guilt can kill you,' says director Nikyatu Jusu, whose psychological thriller features mythological monsters and affluent white bosses.
But as Jusu told me in an interview, Aisha finds herself struggling within this white patriarchal setting
. “Cis, hetero, white maleness is at the top,” she said. “That leaves the rest of us to try to survive a system that was never intended for our survival.” The illusion of a job that could inch Aisha closer to the American Dream—and the goal of bringing her son Lamine to the States from Senegal—crumbles almost instantaneously.
d on her feet. Even in the light of day, things at her job become increasingly bleak: Her pay is backed up weeks at a time, with only the hazy promise of compensation. Most worrisome of all, whenever she calls home to Senegal, Lamine isn’t around to speak with her. She succinctly sums her predicament up on a phone call with a friend: “They own me. I have no life.”While her situation is obviously constricted by her class and race, the weightiest toll for Aisha is an emotional one.
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