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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Godfrey 2022-03-27 09:01:18
7/10. Netizens rushed to the spot, killed a traffic policeman by mistake, fled south, and ended a thousand miles away. If it weren't for the cause of the crime and the racial discrimination against blacks, this would be another "Wild Flowers" with the same ending. The car shock scene was really good. The title should be the screen names of the two main characters.
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Leif 2022-03-25 09:01:19
Non-traditional road escape films, male and female protagonists have too much time to fall in love. In fact, the male and female protagonists have no chemical reaction in the image, but they have to forcefully play together, which is a bit too inconsistent. The heroine's gunshot wound was inexplicably healed, and the police were inexplicably released. The more lengthy and boring the movie is, the more I look forward to the ending: Are all the accidental injuries in the movie the initiators of the police, satire?
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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.