One of Them Days: An Hilarious Absurdly Authentic Film
It’s the first of the month and your checking account is on E, pockets have no mileage. Better yet, it seems you may even have a hole in it. Every time you get a little bit of change here comes a bill reminder. Better yet imagine it is the first of the month and you have zero dollars in your savings. No shock there, you were never good at that. Even when you opened a high-yield savings account, recommended by your favorite financial baddie, Taylor Harmon, founder of Finance The Brand; after asking Google how to make $1500 fast. A 3.80% annual percentage yield sounded like the actions of a person with a fully developed prefrontal cortex. I’ve only been 25 for three days, but I think we’re off to a good start. I mean anything to ease the ongoing anxiety produced by my undergraduate loans haunting me from the depths of collections. Not to mention the newest emoji that popped up on my dashboard as I was racing down 285. My most followed motto: one good financial decision today will eradicate all the poor ones from the last seven years. The next item on the agenda is to remove Sallie Mae from the block list and handle her like the real pain she is. But first things first I gotta find a way to get this money by tomorrow, really today because it’s the first of the month and $1500 is due by close of business.
Much like the dilemma in One of Them Days written by Syreeta Singleton, produced by Issa Rae, and directed by Lawrence Lamont. This mainstream comedy buddy film grossing over $40 million, follows characters Dreux (Keke Palmer) and her bestie Alyssa (SZA) who are also roommates racing against the clock to come up with $1500 before they face eviction. Some would say in an emergent situation such as this call and ask a relative or a close friend to lend you $1500, problem solved. However, these two besties who live in the Jungles aren’t afforded that luxury.
They go through a series of trials that test their friendship and evolve their character. There’s something about having your back against the wall that’ll ignite us and help realign our actions in order to live life according to our purpose. I mean giving your stay-at-home (less) leach of a boyfriend $1500 tasking and expecting him to pay your bills is a great error in judgment. Maybe even a character flaw… Nevertheless, Dreux and Alyssa focus on what seems to be unachievable. From breaking into big booty Berniece’s house and finding that your hobosexual boyfriend invested the rent money into his dead-end business, to a near-death experience from donating blood for profit, then getting trapped in a blaze inside your empty dilapidated apartment with a notorious merciless gangster. I guess like R&B artist Monica sings “It’s just one of them days that a girl goes through.” The journey of this pair of besties is unpredictable, relatable, and hilarious. Plus, their friendship proves to be enduring and resilient. I could not help, but find my emotional parallel in the characters. Remembering my undergraduate days of donating plasma and door-dashing to make ends meet.
I understood that in struggle we gain a deeper understanding of each other and learn that it is a necessary component to our self-development. But after you max out two credit cards and learn that banks talk to each other and flag you every time you attempt to open a checking account. Who would’ve known that you could still owe after closing an overdrawn account? Now that I think of it, I probably should’ve taken a finance class instead of sign language. On a scale from zero to five I give this film a five because of its absurdly authentic essence and throwback to Friday vibes. Not at all because I am writing from a payday loan for any purpose center. One of Them Days is a must-see! Wake up wake up wake up it’s the 1st of tha month!
