Roughly 20 Long Beach City College students took the opportunity to mingle in the Nordic Lounge located in the E building of the LBCC Liberal Arts Campus to see the famous action drama ‘The Woman King’ on March 30.
These students arrived at a dimly lit Nordic Lounge, arranged to look like a tent filled with lounge chairs and couches in order to mimic the feel of a movie theater.
“It’s important to show this movie because it is empowering during women’s history month and to LBCC students,” said student, Moroni Faleono, after watching the movie.
Faleono agrees with the empowerment and the strong sentiment that The Woman King portrays, having this screening in celebration of Women’s History Month.
The Woman King is a historical action drama that shines a light on the untold traditional African tales and the force of female empowerment.
The story focuses on an all women military group that fought off enemy tribes during the 17th-19th century with immense symbolism and a strong message of womanhood.
This was screened to not only entertain students but to educate them on women dominated films which show the injustice of gender expectations along with the fight and grit women go through to survive in all capacities of life.
The Woman king takes the cake as it shows the uncomfortable situations women are put in to overcome their trauma.
Snacks like Costco pizza, popcorn, candy and various flavors of sodas were available for students to grab and binge as they watched the movie. The movie was streamed from netflix on a projector and set up by student activities advisor Kim Hamon.
The carefree atmosphere was relaxing and stress free as students unwinded as a proper way to end the week with spring break quickly approaching.
“This is to destress our nordic lounge area here, this is a place where students can take a break from class, come in and we have a pool table and were really trying to make it a place for them to say ‘hey we also can change it to a theater and have a place for them to come without leaving campus,” said Roberson.
“As a woman I think it’s empowerment and it’s really nice to represent and see women on the screen taking on a lead role. I think it just kicks off our month and lets our students know- especially our women’s students know and having them come in and just see us playing this movie and really bring it back to culture,” Roberson added
As a woman herself, Roberson was proud to put on this event and to see the representation of women starring lead roles and the culture that woman king shows.