A stripper’s odyssey, written in tweets
Jun 25, 2021
4 minutes
By Stephanie Zacharek
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Stephanie Zacharek
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ECAUSE HUMANKIND WILL NEVER STOP INVENTING NEW forms for old stories, it was only a matter of time before we got a movie adapted from a Twitter thread. In directed and co-written by Janicza Bravo, a young waitstaffer at a Hooters-style restaurant makes a new friend who cajoles her into taking a weekend road trip to Florida. The goal is to make some quick money dancing at strip clubs, which seems forthright enough. But the ensuing adventure involves guns, sex work, a menacing pimp and a lovelorn boyfriend’s suicide attempt. And all of it really happened—or sort of happened—as recorded by a young woman named A’Ziah “Zola” King in a series of 148 tweets posted
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