00:00Hey NaturallyCurlyWorld, it is I, April, and today's Watch and Go, I'm gonna be
00:05talking about how I watched Proud Mary.
00:12Who the hell are you?
00:17I'm Mary.
00:22This movie, you guys, absolutely blew me away.
00:26I'm still salty that Sony Pictures did not hype this enough, which is just nothing but
00:33some misogynoir, and we all know that misogynoir is the devil, but my auntie Taraji P. Henson
00:39knocked it out of the park with this one, and while I wash my hair today, I'm gonna tell
00:42you guys how and why.
00:44I'm gonna start things off with the Oyin Handmade Oh My Glide, because although my twist out
00:50looks big, it is full of the secret that it's tangled as hell, so we're gonna go ahead and
00:55fix that.
00:56Then after that, I'm gonna hit my hair with the mane and tail pre-poo, then we're gonna
01:00go into the Bounce Curl Moisturizing Shampoo, that's what I'm gonna be in the sink with today.
01:05And then, this one really got me interested, it's the Elaine Hair and Body Deep Conditioner,
01:10but they separate it by porosity, you guys, and I've told you before, I have Swiss cheese
01:14hair, so this is their high porosity line.
01:16I'm gonna finish things off with the Curl Dynasty Kalahari Leave-In, and today I've also
01:22got some fun non-hair product-y hair products, some hair tools, that's how you say it.
01:28So I got the Texture Pro Wave Comb, I'm gonna detangle with this because it looks nice and
01:33wide, and then I got the Hair Remedy Frizz Eliminating Towel, that I'm pretty sure is like
01:37the jersey sheets that I had in college, but let's see what it does for my frizz.
01:41Alright, so we start things off in Boston, which believe it or not, you guys, has more than
01:46baked beans and cream pie, it's actually a hotbed of criminal activity apparently.
01:51We open with the scene of Mary stalking her prey, she's got on a blonde wig, and she is
01:58about to take somebody out, and I don't mean for dinner, okay?
02:01Now her mission is to kill everybody in the house, right?
02:05She hears somebody, and you know, as a contract killer, you're not about to leave a witness,
02:11right?
02:12So she creeps up, she goes in, she's already shed blood today, she's about to shed some
02:17more, and what does she see?
02:18It's a little boy.
02:19Just this dumb tween-age kid, and he's got his headphones on, he's playing his Xbox,
02:25he doesn't even know that his dad is downstairs, dead.
02:29And she just can't bring herself to kill him, she closes the door, and she's out.
02:35We go ahead and we cut to, I believe, a year later, and we see how the boy's been living.
02:42Spoiler alert, not super great.
02:45He is actually a drug runner for the vaguely threatening Eastern European mafia of choice,
02:53and the leader of these guys is called Uncle, and he is just awful.
03:00He's beating on this kid.
03:02The beating that he got before he left really took its toll on him, and he passes out in
03:07the street.
03:08And that's when Mary comes back onto the scene.
03:10She comes in like an avenging angel, she swoops the child off the street, brings him, not
03:16to a shelter, not to the cops, she brings him into her own home, you guys, lays him up
03:22on her own designer couch.
03:25Their start is suitably rocky, you know?
03:28Even though that tenderness is there and she gets to it pretty quickly, he's kind of a
03:33piece of work.
03:34But as she's nursing him and getting him to open up and so forth, she reveals she's just
03:38like, yeah, I know who you work for, yeah, I know this, I know that, I know everything
03:42about you.
03:43How?
03:44She's not gonna tell him.
03:45But it comes out that she has been keeping tabs on this kid the entire year, just kind
03:51of keeping a watchful eye whenever she can.
03:54That's why she knew to be right there when he was getting mugged.
03:57I'm gonna go ahead and finish the rest of these twists off camera, because it's gonna
04:00take a bit, but I'll be back for you guys when I start to shampoo.
04:04Okay, you guys, now I'm gonna go ahead and pre-poo.
04:09It is really cool to see not just a black gang family, even though you could make the
04:15argument that what is the mafia but a gang in suits, right?
04:20But it's really cool to see a kind of elegant black crime family for once.
04:26These people are wearing Armani, Taraji is drinking milk out of the organic glass bottles,
04:32you know, so they're a more refined class of criminal, and it's really cool to see that
04:38for black people specifically.
04:39I'm just gonna keep raking this pre-poo through my hair.
04:43I'm gonna go ahead and shampoo over the sink, and then we'll be back with some of the thrilling
04:48conclusions and the action highlights.
04:50Alright, you guys, so while I was off screen, I went ahead and shampooed, rinsed, and now
04:57I'm on my deep conditioning phase in this super stylish sour cap.
05:02One of the biggest themes in the movie that I loved was women aren't to be owned.
05:06In fact, no person is to be owned, but because Taraji is a black woman, we're seeing this
05:11from a black woman's lens, it's black women cannot be owned.
05:16The most important men in a black woman's life, in a straight black woman's life, are
05:20gonna be her dad, her brother, her lover, and her son, right?
05:27We get the brother and lover kind of combined into the son of the mafia household, but her
05:34mafia dad tries to own her in saying, you leave when I say so, and that's gonna be in
05:39a box.
05:40Her former lover tries to control her in saying, he goes, you're not the mother and type, I
05:45know you, only we can do this together, you have to be mine.
05:49But it's also a familial betrayal when she wants to leave because it's just like, we grew
05:54up, they're about the same age, so it's like, we grew up shooting people together, how could
05:58you leave me?
05:59So that leaves the son.
06:01And she doesn't let him just walk all over her, she's like, you don't own me either,
06:05I just feel a sense of responsibility to you.
06:08But the love, the love between them is there, and it's really sweet, you guys.
06:12Alright you guys, I'm gonna let this marinate for a little while, and then I'll give you
06:16my final, final thoughts while I'm doing my leave-in, and bid you goodbye then.
06:21So I'm just putting the leave-in conditioner on my nice damp hair.
06:26I'm re-twisting it again.
06:28If you want to call it a brainless action flick, that's totally not undeserved.
06:34But I feel like, hey, you know, after Rambo, and Alien, and all these other action movies
06:43that don't put people that look at least a little bit like me at the forefront, I kinda want my
06:49dumb shoot-em-up flicks too.
06:51And I'm definitely upset that it didn't receive a lot of the hype that I think it should've.
06:58I really think that if Sony put more money behind pushing this out, it would have been
07:04a lot better than it was.
07:06Or rather, it would have been a lot bigger than it was.
07:09Alright, I'm gonna continue twisting this leave-in through my hair off screen.
07:13We'll see you guys in a few minutes while I work this through.
07:16Alright you guys, I lied about the number of products I was gonna use today.
07:21I also used the Cocoa Conscious Collective Intensive Style Primer.
07:27It's supposed to be a heat protectant, but it's all oils with no silicone, so I went ahead
07:32and used it as an ode to try and seal my hair up a little bit.
07:36Final thoughts on Proud Mary are, I give it a 4.5 out of 5, and that .5 off is a loss because
07:43of style points.
07:45It's really not fair to ask Taraji P. Henson to carry an entire movie style all by herself,
07:51so this is not on her.
07:53This is more about the editing and the color direction and the stylistic choices that were
07:56made overall.
07:58Since most of y'all did not go see this in theaters, which, shame, I will say it's definitely
08:04worth the buy once it comes out on DVD.
08:07So go ahead and tell me if you saw it in the comments below.
08:10Awesome if you did.
08:11If you didn't, we all make mistakes.
08:13But tell me if you're interested in seeing it, the answer better be yes.
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08:25We never stop watching, and we never stop watching.
08:28Bye guys.
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