![]() Her dad is a proud Black Panther who lives in a tough black neighbourhood, but he has now settled down to running a neighbourhood store profitable enough for him to send his daughter to a posh private school, away from bad influences. Starr is effectively living a double life. ![]() By the end of the movie, Starr suggests a radical change in attitude, and in fact a change to the third word of this title – the “U”. ![]() The director is George Tillman Jr, who made Notorious in 2009, and the title itself is taken from Tupac’s Thuglife, an acronym for The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everyone. The movie has been written for the screen by the late Audrey Wells, who died of cancer two weeks ago, adapted by her from the 2017 YA bestseller by Angie Thomas. The Hate U Give is a fierce, dynamic movie with a terrific performance from Amandla Stenberg as Starr, a high-school student who becomes witness to a callous cop shooting, and her performance seems to be channelling some of the defiance and miraculous strength despite vulnerability in that famous picture. She did this with all the floaty calmness of Botticelli’s Venus. I f ever a movie resonated with a news image it’s this one, with the extraordinary shot of nurse Ieshia Evans at a protest in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 2016, where she faced down three cops in full riot gear while wearing a flimsy frock.
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