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The Hate U Give
    2018-10-24  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

Directed by George Tillman, Jr., this film is adapted from Angie Thomas’s YA novel of the same title. The story makes a girl the only witness* to an unarmed boy’s death from police shooting and watches her struggle to decide whether to speak up.

Amandla Stenberg plays Starr Carter, who spends her life code-switching. Raised by parents all too aware of her rough neighborhood’s threats, she has attended a white-bread* private school all her life, and made a point of being less street than her classmates.

She loves this clean, safe place and feels she belongs; throw in an adoring, earnest boyfriend, Chris (K.J. Apa), and part of her wishes she never needed to go back to her other life. Still, she loves her family, an almost perfect household despite the troubled past of her ex-con* father Maverick (Russell Hornsby), who got together with mom Lisa (Regina Hall) as a teen and managed to make the relationship last.

Maverick is a believer in Black Panther* principles that challenge police brutality. The film begins with him, many years ago, giving his children “the talk” about how to conduct themselves when they find themselves stopped by a cop. The movie springs from a tragedy in which she put that training into action, and a friend did not.

Starr goes to a party one night in her neighborhood and runs into Khalil (Algee Smith), a friend since she was a toddler*. The two wind up in his car alone, and are stopped when he changes lanes* without signaling. Unwilling to prostrate* himself before the officer as Starr does, Khalil makes an innocent* movement that is seen as a threat*. He’s shot immediately, leaving him dying in the street while the cop and Starr are gripped by panic.

The film focuses on Starr’s worries over what would happen to her life at school if she went public about having seen the shooting. Having done so well at establishing a life there, will she now become just the poor girl who saw her friend get killed?

The film follows many subplots, showing how this event affects the usual teen-movie stuff (prom, friendships) and pointing toward the bigger political world likely to consume* Starr’s life if she speaks out.

(SD-Agencies)

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