Fast Color, "Fast Color" revolves around a powerful story in which three generations of strong black women embrace their special abilities. Written and directed by women and starring women of color, Fast Color embodies the ethic of superheroes and has been praised for its visual style, interpretation, direction, and inspiring story. [Sources: 13]
Played by Gugu Mbatha-Row, Lorraine Toussaint, Sanya Sidney, Christopher Denham and David Strathairn, it tells the story of Ruth (Mbatha-Row), a woman with supernatural powers fleeing law enforcement and wanting to research and The testing scientist her Ruth (Mbatha-Raw). Fast Color is set in the near future when America suffers from a drought. Fast Color took Fast Color's time to find out why Ruth (Gugu Mbatha-Row) was on the run and why her twitches seemed to set off an earthquake. The film is set in the near future, an America scorched and blighted by eight years of drought. The film puts us in a car next to Ruth, a nervous (totally nervous Gugu Mbatha-Raw), recovering drug addict who has a sudden convulsion. Can cause earthquakes. [Sources: 0, 6, 9]
Fast Color stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw as a woman named Ruth who is forced to flee when her superpowers are discovered, a woman named Ruth. Other films may have picked up on the story when Ruth (Gugu Mbatha Row) hit rock bottom, but this one is about recovery, healing, and redemption, with occasional tense chase scenes. Fast Color is not so much interested in the secret of Ruth's abilities and how they could manifest themselves elsewhere, but who Ruth (Googu Mbatha-Raw) is, who her loved ones are, and what are the sins of one generation, passed down from generation to generation. next, in an expected and unexpected way. [Sources: 8, 11, 13]
The story of the imagery is both mysterious and moving, whether in the quick memories that invade Ruth's mind or in the beautiful special effects that empower supernatural powers to destroy and replenish solid objects at will, the bright colors flickering in the sky like the private aurora borealis. genius. Not only is the performance organic and beautiful, but it's a story about black women accepting themselves and their power in the face of mortal threats. With Fast Color, director Julia Hart wanted to show how the black women of the family hid their supernatural powers to survive in an unfathomable world. Hart and Justin Horowitz could easily replace or knock out any other talent; Fast Color aims to construct a coherent image of three black women living together, only the swelling and swirl of their emotions from the "seeing color" experienced by all three The visual form is obtained from the phenomenon. [Sources: 1, 5, 6, 10]
How it all turns out is less important than "the film's devotion to the rhythms of these characters' lives, grounding us in their dynamics even as things get more and more supernatural." Fast Color often clashes with the places we call home and the people we should call a place home, and a lot of that comes from the more subtle moments between Mbatha-Row, Ruth Bo's mother, and Sania Sidney as Leela, Ruth's estranged daughter. . Lorraine Toussaint, mother of Ruth Beau, combines a talent for imposing maternal instincts with a pronounced sense of guilt. Arriving at her old family home, Ruth (Mbata-Row) is reunited with her mother Bo (Lorraine Toussaint), who has the ability to telekinetically destroy objects, reassemble them, and see bright flashes known as "colors". objects, picks them up and observes a bright glow known as "colors" that object to them. [Sources: 0, 8, 12]
When his mother confronts a group of gunmen, the character essentially comes out of hiding to save a dying world, and a new film directed by Julia Hearts revives her weak heartbeat. After the road movie's opening sequences, the drama turns into a homecoming story - a tricky one, as it turns out, for Gugu Mbatha-Rousa Ruth, who has lived a hectic life on the run, trying not only to escape, to the warning of those around her. but the aftermath of his superhuman powers Gugu Mbatha-Rousse Ruth, who lived a hectic life on the run, trying to avoid not only the attention of others, but the consequences of his superhuman powers Gugu Mbatha-Rousse Ruth. Despite its relatively simple structure, albeit with a lot of action, Hearts' story of Ruth's origins finds its most compelling angle through comments about gender and race. While I really enjoyed Ruth's journey as Hart orchestrated it, I understand that its fragmented nature may not be for everyone. [Sources: 2, 4, 11]
However, it's the human factor that keeps us hooked into superhero movies, and it's so often missing from our highest-budget shows, which is why Quick Color's minimalist origin story for Julia Harts proves all the more compelling. One of the things you have to love about movies that can't disguise everything in CGI and green screen is that they have to make those moments special. Leaving you, even after years of Marvel and DC films, and even Star Wars, as if there is still a sense of magic and awe due to the special effects. [Sources: 7, 8]
Leaving Fast Color to you, but to be honest, if the characters weren't black or women of color, it would be missing out on one of the main reasons for praise. This is a true story of Afrofuturism with black characters who change the course of history and I'd like to think that Octavia E. Butler would have been pleased with this movie because of the representation that comes to life in Fast Color. Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times awarded Fast Color 3.5 stars and praised Gugu Embath-Raw for Gugu Embath-Raw's only performance, and director Julia Hart for "a truly moving drama, gripping supernatural sci-fi mystery and some really impressive special effects. [Sources: 0, 5, 7]
The color of the movie titles seems to be inspired by Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and like this movie, its effects give an emotional boost as the storylines build up. Indeed, Fast Color is a touching family melodrama, tied to long-standing issues and festering secrets, in which the superhero is a bold conceptual leap that juxtaposes the trials and quirks of one family with the world at large. [Sources: 3, 11]