A messy message. Coming in, I wasn’t really expecting much out of this movie based on the trailer alone. I had a very similar negative reaction to the trailer for Blindspotting, but that ended up being one of my favorite movies of the year so far, so I was hoping The Hate U Give would turn out similarly. Unfortunately my fears came true, and although the message for the film is obviously necessary, the execution is quite poor. The movie starts off with some very corny narration that acts as if it’s a dumb children’s movie, and I immediately knew how this film would turn out. My least-favorite aspect of the film is definitely the writing, the dialogue and plot…

“How many more of us do you have to kill before you get it?”

I did not know beforehand that this picture was based on young adult fiction. I cannot say that I was surprised when I found out. A younger generation wants to speak out against injustices and art can certainly have an important interventive role in society. It can call issues into question. It helps us understand our fears, insecurities and sins. It is inspiring that people are increasingly more aware of inequality and that they have something to say about it. People, more and more, are not afraid to act. That gives me hope. However, it is a shame that the speech that is produced about these…

O Ódio que Você Semeia cai em alguns caguetes de filmes adolescentes e provavelmente poderia ser uns minutinhos mais curtos, mas, na maior parte do tempo, é uma obra madura e necessária. Muito mais do que eu esperava, inclusive.

A direção é precisa, energética e, acima de tudo, catártica quando necessário; as atuações estão acima de média (o pai da protagonista é meu favorito) e acertam muito bem na reprodução crível de uma dinâmica familiar, e o roteiro brilha na organização de uma trama que cresce a cada sequência, na exploração de diversas camadas do assunto principal e na concepção de momentos que deixam um nó na garganta, sejam estes diálogos, discursos cheios de críticas ou a cena do pente…