2018 Directed by George Tillman, Jr.
Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.
Amandla Stenberg Regina Hall Russell Hornsby K.J. Apa Common Anthony Mackie Algee Smith Lamar Johnson Issa Rae Sabrina Carpenter TJ Wright Dominique Fishback Megan Lawless Tony Vaughn Karan Kendrick Susan Santiago Rayven Symone Ferrell Marcia Wright Drew Starkey Dustin Lewis Rhonda Johnson Dents Brian Lafontaine Al Mitchell Iyana Halley Tanya Christiansen Andrene Ward-Hammond Heaven Hightower Myles Evans Kai N. Ture Show All…
Frank Galline Kristen Hunsicker A.J. Caulfield Drew Meyers Nikki Hillhouse Nick Forman Kathleen Denson
The Hate U Give - La haine qu'on donne, The Hate You Give, Ваша ненависть, O Odio que Voce Semeia
Politics and human rights Underdogs and coming of age Crime, drugs and gangsters drugs, violence, crime, gritty or cops racism, african american, powerful, hatred or slavery school, teacher, student, classroom or classmates surfing, teenager, friendship, kids or adolescents family, emotional, emotion, touching or kids Show All…
“It’s the same story, just a different name”
Freddie Gray
Sam Dubose
Philando Castile
Terence Crutcher
Alton Sterling
Jamar Clark
Breonna Taylor
Rayshard Brooks
George Floyd
Jeremy McDole
Tamir Rice
Michael Brown
Eric Garner...
The list goes on... this is why they kneel... I was crying the whole damn movie (no, I’m not over exaggerating... this movie brought me to tears for its entire 2+ hour run time). Strong performances by Amandla Stenberg and Russell Hornsby... THIS IS AMERICA
“It is impossible to be unarmed, when our blackness is the weapon that they fear”
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2018: Ranked
Not to be dramatic but this should replace the entire history curriculum in high schools all over the world.
It’s well-acted, well-made, & well-written, showing that YA novel adaptations can be more than just romance & dystopias. ACAB.
I was saddened to learn of screenwriter Audrey Wells' death and I had this lined up to see. Amandla Stenberg gives a great performance as Starr Carter, caught up in two worlds: her life in an African American community and her life at prep school. The film is way better than the trailer. All of the supporting characters are solid as well. The social injustice portrayed is definitely dramatized. However, it uses real examples of people who were unjustly killed including Emmett Till and Sandra Bland. It upsetting to know that police brutality exists, but refreshing to know that young people will stand up to it and fight it until it stops.
Vegan alert:
Some non-vegan foods are featured.
There is also extreme violence toward humans in this film.
Hmmmm. Well. So...not sure where to begin a review for this without entering 1000 different tangents so I think it's best if I begin this entry with a little background.
Around last year in 2017 I had a family friend get killed in the Dallas area due to police brutality. If you wanna read about it you can here: www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/05/05/texas-officer-who-killed-black-teenager-leaving-party-is-charged-with-murder/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.3cd9cb09e453. My mom even attended the funeral, although I didn't because I knew I wouldn't be able to bring myself to. Just last year a group of my friends were out and about driving around Huntsville (a small town here in Texas) and a cop decided to stop them because my friends tail light was out. She's a white woman and…
read this last week and would really recommend the book. this adaptation is a tiny bit worse than Alright but i still think it’s worth the watch. the final pages of the book list some of the names of black people who have been murdered and it’s heartbreaking. with those names and everything going on right now i can’t tell whether this was comforting or just made me feel even more helpless to be honest. the way the story translates onto the screen just mimics the news at the moment.
also: ACAB and fuck that hailey girl
a re-watch definitely makes the flaws in this film much more evident but regardless i really do think this is a mandatory viewing for everyone—absolutely gut-wrenching. amandla is amazing
ahhhh - I watched this film 2 days ago and I can't stop thinking about it. some of the reviews are making me tear up almost as much as the movie itself did. this should definitely be a mandatory viewing for everyone in my opinion, I learned quite a bit from watching this and the performances and direction from george tillman jr. were soooo great. I remember when I visited NYC in october and seeing all of the billboards advertising thinking I was so excited to watch it. amandla stenberg really deserved more praise for her performance! a lot of people seem not to like her but she was so good and I can't wait to see what she does next.
if you haven't watched this, I highly recommend you seek it out and tell your friends!
this is a YA film adaptation so it is not perfect, it has its flaws and sometimes it felt too sloppy, but on the other hand it has a very important message that needs to be spread, now more than ever
mostly familiar, glossy Issues melodrama that nonetheless builds and layers on enough richly detailed emotional reality and political/historical context (that frequently interact with and complicate each other) to make this completely engrossing even when the writing gets blunt and overplays its hand—which it does severely in a handful of dialogue exchanges and narration. as far as polished, mainstream liberal primers go however this is well-observed and emphatically felt.
