The Weekend is the inevitable transition between filmmaker S. Meghie’s other significant movies, the 2017 adolescent comedy Everything, Everything, and the 2020 love story The Photograph. The Weekend is a lighthearted, smart chick flick featuring SNL alum SasheerZamata that was published in theatres in 2019. It’s just odd sufficient to be an under-the-radar treasure.
The Gist
Zadie (Zamata) does not appear to enjoy embracing others. She leans in approximately a third of the halfway and doesn’t raise her hands, leaving the uncomfortable embrace to the other individual. It’s typical of her attitude toward life in the 3 years after she and Bradford split up and chose to be intimate mutual mates. She’s a stand-up comedian whose act revolves around her painfully lonely status. The more she concentrates on herself, the less she improves on herself, resulting in her sadness increasing.
Zadie communicates her anguish in a variety of ways; one of which is by covering herself in a layer of black sarcasm. Nobody knows if she’s kidding or not when she speaks things that others are afraid to utter. She simply has a knack for presenting honest facts that makes it appear as though she isn’t taking herself seriously.
Others in her existence may be struggling, but seeing her in a film, her anger is hilarious. She’s like a sharpshooter. Only she’s in the same building and shooting dead center, and no one knows if the rifle is packed.
Anyway, she and Bradford scheduled a holiday vacation to her mom Karen’s (Kym Whitley) mattress, but he brought there Margo (DeWanda Wise), his two-year-old lover, maybe as a buffer against any possible expressions of old, tangled sentiments. Zadie makes every encounter as difficult as feasible, in the literal sense, since sorrow adores sympathy.
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The Weekend reeks of W. Allen, for good or ill, with breezy woodwinds on the music, convoluted emotional connections, and a script brimming with subtle zingers. If Woody Allen had worked with an all-Black ensemble of Millenials, which doesn’t appear to be the case. Zamata’s rendering of Zadie as a sponge cake of comorbidities is hilarious in a funny-because-it’s-true kind of way.
Our Opinion
We’ve all met someone whose unwillingness to take themselves seriously makes them tough to read, right? These folks can be difficult. They’re almost certainly not stand-up comedians, which adds an additional degree of aggression for everybody else to goggle at.
These folks can be difficult — and they’re almost certainly not stand-up comedians, which adds an additional degree of objectionable for everybody else to goggle at. That’s what elevates the personality above just a collection of oddities for our entertainment or an absolute mess for our compassion.
The film’s success is dependent on the four leads’ fantastic rapport – Margo feels something’s up, Bradford understands something’s up, and Zadie keeps insisting something’s up, but everyone questions her genuineness. Aubrey, on the other hand, quickly understands he’s wading into a catastrophe after just walking out of his own.
STREAM IT is our rallying cry. The Weekend makes us care about its actors. It provides ample chuckles and makes us question if Zamata is the next big thing in Hollywood.
