The Witch: An Allegory

Rating: 10/10 (28 February 2016)

"The Witch" is arguably one of the most racially prevalent movies of the millennium. This is a story of white (English) settlers who settle in rural America and are banned from a plantation. The plantation is a literal reference to the plantations that white forefathers originally enslaved blacks in colonial America. William (the father) was kicked out of the plantation for being too radical, to which he argues that his practices are, in his mind, justified because they what God demands. He and his family are banished and take their farm somewhere else. Black Phillip (the goat) symbolizes not just the black slaves, but the entire black race; when let out of his pen he is taunted by the children for being black and even his name: BLACK Phillip is a nod to the tyranny and oppression of the white man. Throughout the movie, however, Black Phillip learns to turn the white family against one another. Eventually they all kill each other. Black Phillip (The black race) rises to the top where he belongs.