Woman and Black
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MatureOngoing5m
Last published Mon, Jun 27, 2022
They say as you get older you get wiser? Is this really true? Especially for a black woman in her early twenties that's trying to make out her path and survive the struggles of living in the modern day fast paced cityscapes of Johannesburg after barely making it out of Varsity. Here we see Elena rushing to go to work after barely getting a day's worth of sleep, she's trying to make it in time for work, that barely leaves a care for the struggles that women face on a day-to-day basis. She must impress her strict and unreasonable superior whilst juggling her own internal issues dealing with rape, harassment as well as keeping up a happy face to hide so that no one see's through the broken person she really is. Here's the real question though, who is she hiding from? The people or herself?
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