Like a clock being right twice a day, we can always to make some version of the same film over and over. He’s been doing so for almost 20 years, and he shows no sign of pumping the brakes anytime soon. Perry’s upcoming 25th film, “Divorce in the Black,” stars some of Black Hollywood’s favorites, including Meagan Good, Cory Hardrict, Richard Lawson and Debbi Morgan.
The trailer starts off with Good, who plays Ava, at the dinner table with her husband Hardrict, who plays Dallas. In typical Perry fashion, the Black woman is enduring something traumatic — this time around, it appears Ava is in an abusive relationship. Eventually, she divorces him and finds a new man, only for Dallas to begin stalking her.
Basically, it appears to be a variation of — which stars Sanaa Lathan, Morris Chestnut and Michael Ealy — but in a slightly different font and with a different director. But it shares beats with at least a dozen of Perry’s own films..
.even the beginning of the trailer looks his February film “Mea Culpa.” When Prime Video dropped the trailer on Instagram Thursday evening, the seemed to be overwhelmingly against the film’s plot and expressed disdain for Perry’s consistent “Black woman in distress” trope.
Social media is quick to critique Perry for writes, producing and directing all his own films without a writers room to offer some variance. Memes and tweets poked fun at the predictability of Perry’s plotlines. But Perry’s defenders are also out .