‘Zola’ Ends up Exploiting Women Anyway
“Y’all wanna hear a story about how me and this bitch here fell out? It’s kind of long but full of suspense.” So reads the first volley in a 148-tweet thread that spawned Janicza Bravo’s Zola, a messy and maddening black comedy about two strippers on a work trip gone wrong.
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