Was Taraji’s Daughter in ‘Straw’ Useless the Complete Time? Black TikTok Has Theories

Although Tyler Perry’s newest movie “Straw” has left the highest 10 on Netflix, it is nonetheless being talked about throughout social media. Particularly, a really attention-grabbing concept concerning the main plot twist of the movie is now being broadly dissected and we have simply received to debate it. Warning, spoilers beneath!

If you do not know, the movie stars Taraji P. Henson as Janiyah, a single mom whose world unravels in chaos in at some point as she struggles to take care of her unwell, eight-year-old daughter, Aria. From shedding her house, getting fired from her job and struggling to money her final paycheck for her daughter, Janiyah is pushed to the brink and compelled to primarily “rob” the financial institution all within the title of her daughter’s wellbeing.

Properly, regardless of the already excessive tensions, the movie will get flipped on its head in direction of the top when it is revealed that Janiyah’s younger daughter has really died from a seizure the evening earlier than. Nonetheless, after watching the film over once more, many Black of us on TikTok now imagine that Janiyah’s daughter might have been all along–meaning from birth–and that she by no means existed within the first place.

To show that concept, in a now viral video, viewers are pointing to a scene the place Janiyah is strolling out of the hospital holding a blanket that is wrapped round her youngster. Given the place she’s carrying it in, viewers surmised that it was Aria as a baby–not as an eight-year-old. In addition they level to the truth that the principal at Aria’s college was confused at seeing Janiyah “drop her off,” particularly given the truth that the kid is deceased.

In one other video, it pointed to the scene the place Janiyah asks her neighbor to show down the music so her daughter might sleep, however the neighbor is chilly and confused on the ask. Given all these scenes, many are beginning to imagine Aria was useless from the very starting and that she was a figment of Janiyah’s creativeness the whole time as a type of dealing with the grief.

And whereas that concept appears believable for some, for others–it nonetheless would not add up.

“I hate when yall give you yall personal narratives after a film or somebody tells yall wtf is happening already! She DIDNT IMAGINE HER CHILDS ENTIRE LIFE. The kid died the day earlier than on the hospital at 8 years outdated as they said DASSIT,” wrote one person within the feedback on TikTok.

“THIS IS INCORRECT!!! The daughter was actual and had seizures. The mom let her bathe alone, and she or he fell, had a seizure, and died. Her mother rushed her to the hospital, the place she was pronounced useless, and she or he solely left with the blanket,” one different person mentioned. “However in her thoughts, she couldn’t settle for that. So the subsequent morning, she awakened and imagined every thing — taking her to high school, paying $40, going to work. The film opens with a dream of her holding her youngster, however ends with the reality: the blanket was empty. That was the day her thoughts broke.”

Added one other: “Nope…the kid died the earlier evening…Even the financial institution supervisor mentioned it that she’s seen her together with her child.”