Widows hit cinemas this week, an action-thriller from the Academy Award winning director of 12 Years a Slave, Steve McQueen. He teams up with an all star cast that includes Viola Davis, Liam Neeson, Daniel Kaluuya and Michelle Rodriguez.<\/b><\/p>\n
A group of women are left heartbroken and financially broken when their husbands are killed during an attempted heist. Now they are left to pick up the pieces and pay back the money their husbands owe.<\/p>\n
From the very beginning, Widows is an emotional rollercoaster. In the first five minutes alone, McQueen sends you back and forth between moments of intimacy and love, edited in stark contrast with action and violence.<\/span><\/p>\n As always, it is a pleasure to watch Davis at work. As Veronica she manages to bring complete subtlety to the character, allowing us to mistake this for naivety, and matches this with dramatic explosions of emotion.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BpU5VIJn_bl\/<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The latter can be a tricky thing to pull off. In one scene, her character sits alone in a bathroom, screaming and crying into a mirror. This does feel a little unrealistic – but it is certainly a refreshing display of emotional vulnerability that was necessary in humanising the character.<\/span><\/p>\n In an interview with the BBC that later went viral<\/a> on Twitter, Davis explained the significance behind the opening scene where she shares a bed with her on-screen husband Liam Neeson.<\/p>\n Davis, 53, said:\u00a0\u201cThe film begins with me in bed with Liam Neeson, and we\u2019re kissing, and it\u2019s a sexualised kiss.\u00a0Here I am, I\u2019m dark, I\u2019m 53, I\u2019m in my natural hair… and I\u2019m with Liam Neeson. I\u2019m with what America would consider to be a \u2018hunk\u2019.<\/p>\n "I'm dark, I'm 53, I'm in my natural hair \u2013 I'm in bed with Liam Neeson. And he's not my slave owner. I'm not a prostitute. We simply are a couple in love. I've never seen it before." pic.twitter.com\/0vtaUM8338<\/a><\/p>\n — Diversity School (@DiverseSchool) November 10, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n