![]() ![]() ![]() The film’s interrogation of what civility really means for black people is where Starr 2.0 enters the scene – the version of herself that goes to a school for wealthy white children. It goes for far more painful, prescient subject matter than most YA adaptations, and feels fresh because of it. The book, and by extension the film, uses this as a thesis, tracing hatred from its institutional origins to its heartbreaking end point. ![]() The title of Angie Thomas’s source novel is lifted from a 2Pac quote about his ‘THUG LIFE’ tattoo, which supposedly stood for ‘The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody’. After a childhood friend is killed by a police officer, we follow Starr from reluctant civility to protest as the film links insecurities large and small, micro-aggressions to institutional oppression. A lot of the film rests on Stenberg’s performance as Starr, and she shoulders that responsibility with ease. This culminates in Maverick describing what he considers “our own bill of rights”, the Black Panther’s 10 Point Program – a manifesto for what we deserve and how to get it, by any means we can. The film opens big, with Starr Carter (Amandla Stenberg) receiving ‘the talk’ from her father Maverick (Russell Hornsby), about what to do when being pulled over by the cops. ![]()
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