History Film / Antebellum

* BigotWithACrush: "Him" forces Veronica to live with him despite being horrifically racist and abusive to black people. [[spoiler: In fact, he actually jeopardized his full-scale re-enactment of slavery by specifically choosing to kidnap Veronica.]]

* TheThemeParkVersion: InUniverse, literally. [[spoiler:Real plantation owners used their field slaves to fund the plantation and lifestyle. That's not necessary to fund this park (and wouldn't be possible with the industrialized, slave-labor-free commercial cotton industry they would have to compete against), but they still use people as slaves against their will to complete the picture, making them do things like pick cotton for sadistic pleasure, not profit.]]

* ForThEvulz: Plantations in Antebellum America were driven by {{Greed}}, dehumanizing, abusing, and exploiting innocent people to make the owners money. [[spoiler:This plantation is driven by sheer sadism, dehumanizing and abusing innocent people for no practical reason except they find it fun.]]

%%* CutLexLuthorACheck: After TheReveal, it's clear that [[spoiler:there's no way the villains can actually be selling the cotton they're forcing people to harvest by hand. They're spending money and resources kidnapping, feeding, maintaining, and guarding people who, unlike their counterparts 200 years ago, aren't making them money in return and growing and harvesting crops that can't make a profit.]]

* TheReveal: First, that Eden is actually Veronica, a minority-rights activist somehow hurled back in time onto a plantation, which the [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil trailers gave away]]. Second, [[spoiler: that she ''wasn't'' hurled back in time, and the plantation exists in the modern day in a private corner of an antebellum reenactment site, where wealthy racists can pay a pretty penny to live out the fantasy of being part of the Old South on a twisted theme park.]]

%%* FlatCharacter: None of the villains are given much development. *ZCE example. Mind adding more detail?*

* FlatCharacter: None of the villains are given much development.

* CutLexLuthorACheck: After TheReveal, it's clear that [[spoiler:there's no way the villains can actually be selling the cotton they're forcing people to harvest by hand. They're spending money and resources kidnapping, feeding, maintaining, and guarding people who, unlike their counterparts 200 years ago, aren't making them money in return and growing and harvesting crops that can't make a profit.]]

* BigBad: [[spoiler:Senator Denton/“Him”, a racist politician trying to preserve the confederate way of life.]]
* ChekovsSkill: Veronica's talents at both yoga and horse-jumping come into play in the climax.

* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Despite being on a plantation full of other slaves [[spoiler: who are also modern day trafficking victims rather than generations-in-bondage slave mentalities]], Veronica is the only one who is able to start a rebellion.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The Plantation Veronica is kept on is patrolled by Confederate soldiers despite taking place before the American Civil War. [[spoiler:Deliberately [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] as the Plantation is actually a theme park in modern day.]]

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Elizabeth at first seems like a modern day racist BitchInSheepsClothing who deals in microagressions, when in reality [[spoiler: she's way worse, being part of a cult that kidnaps black people and enslaves them, believing that is how it should be.]]

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The Mysterious organization that enslaved Veronica and others are [[spoiler: a group of racists who feel entitled to the old status quo of white ownership of black slaves]].

* ArtisticLicenseEconomics: After TheReveal, it's clear that [[spoiler:there's no way the villains can actually be selling the cotton they're forcing people to harvest by hand. They're spending money and resources kidnapping, feeding, maintaining, and guarding people who, unlike their counterparts 200 years ago, aren't making them money in return and growing and harvesting crops that can't make a profit.]]

* ArtistucLicenseEconomics: After TheReveal, it's clear that [[spoiler:there's no way the villains can actually be selling the cotton they're forcing people to harvest by hand. They're spending money and resources kidnapping, feeding, maintaining, and guarding people who, unlike their counterparts 200 years ago, aren't making them money in return and growing and harvesting crops that can't make a profit.]]

* ArtisticLicenceHistory: The Plantation Veronica is kept on is patrolled by Confederate soldiers despite taking place before the American Civil War. [[spoiler:Deliberately [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] as the Plantation is actually a theme park in modern day.]]

* ArtisticLicenceHistory: The Plantation Veronica is kept on is patrolled by Confederate soldiers despite taking place before the American Civil War. [[spoiler: Deliberately [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] as the Plantation is actually a theme park in modern day.]]

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: [[spoiler: Subverted! What seems on the surface like modern day African American people being sent to the past to be slaves is in actuality racist zealots abducting and enslaving them in modern day in a hidden area of a Civil War reenactment Park.]]

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: To Veronica Elizabeth at first seems like a modern day racist BitchInSheepsClothing who deals in microagressions, when in reality [[spoiler: she’s way worse, being part of a cult that kidnaps black people and enslaves them, believing that is how it should be.]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The Mysterious organization that enslaved Veronica and others are [[spoiler: a group of racists who feel entitled to the old status quo of white ownership of black slaves]]

* ActionGirl: Veronica becomes this by the end of the film taking out all of the villains.

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: To Veronica, Elizabeth at first seems like a modern day racist BitchInSheepsClothing deals in microagressions when in reality [[spoiler: she’s way worse, being part of a cult that kidnaps black people and enslaves them, believing that is how it should be.]]

* FlatCharacter: All of the villains are seemingly one note raving racists.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillains: The Mysterious organization that enslaved Veronica and others are [[spoiler: a group of racists who feel entitled to the old status quo of white ownership of black slaves]]

* FlatCharacter: All of the villains are seemingly one note raving racists.

* UsefulNotes/AntebellumAmerica: In the trailers Veronica is depicted as living as a slave in the Antebellum South [[spoiler:...but is it?]] as well as modern day America.

* UsefulNotes/AntebellumAmerica: In the trailers Victoria is depicted as living as a slave in the Antebellum South [[spoiler:...but is it?]] as well as modern day America.

* AntebellumAmerica: In the trailers Victoria is depicted as living as a slave in the Antebellum South [[spoiler:...but is it?]] as well as modern day America.

* DrivenToSuicide: Julia after a rough night of abuse from a confederate soldier causes her to lose her unborn child.

Antebellum is a 2020, racially charged Horror thriller Written and directed by Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz. It stars Music/JanelleMonae, Creator/GaboureySidibe, Creator/JenaMalone, Creator/KierseyClemons, Lily Cowles, Eric Lange and Jack Huston.