Director Melina Matsoukas showed her professional rhythm control and plot structure in her debut work "Queen & Slim"
. The whole film is full of lyrical colors that amaze the audience. It is a flawed but very powerful accusation, which is violence against the police. The deep contemplation of discrimination against people of color is also an angry hymn to the government's malicious deprivation of civil rights
. At the same time, the director also joined the passionate and romantic love between the male and female protagonists at the right time
. This road movie is a romantic provocation between social conflict and personal value. The balance between violence and sexiness, hope and despair, reality and fantasy is the focus of this movie. The road to balance is rough, but it is also a time. Meaningful travel
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Queen & Slim evaluation action
2022-01-18 08:01
Extended Reading
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Queen: He told me nothing scares a white man more than seeing a black man on a horse.
Slim: Why?
Queen: 'Cause they have to look up at him.
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Slim: When I was little, I asked my mom where babies come from. She said I was too young to know. Then I asked my dad. And he said, Babies are a product of two people that needed something from each other. So I said, Needed what? He said, Maybe they needed to feel seen. Maybe they needed to feel loved. Maybe they needed to feel human.
Queen: And then what?
Slim: Then I asked my grandmother. She said babies come from God. They're his way of making sure no one ever really dies. I remember her saying, Through our children, we are reborn. Then I went to my older brother and I asked him. And he said, Nobody knows. You're just born. That's it. Now, leave me alone. I wasn't satisfied with that answer either, but I ran out of family members to ask. So he got the last word.
Queen: So, who was right?
Slim: None of 'em. Babies come from fucking. Plain and simple.